Jovita Neliupšienė ( Pranevičiūtė; born on 3 January 1980) is a Lithuanian politician and former Chief Foreign Policy Adviser to President

Dalia Grybauskaitė Dalia Grybauskaitė (; born 1 March 1956) is a Lithuanian politician who served as the eighth president of Lithuania from 2009 to 2019. She is the first and so far only woman to hold the position and in 2014 she became the first President of Li ...

who is currently the

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. She was the Chancellor of the

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in 2020 and Vice Minister of Economy and Innovation from 2020 until 2022. Neliupšienė had also served as the Lithuanian ambassador to the European Union from 2015 to 2020.

Biography

Jovita Neliupšienė was born in

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on 3 January 1980. From 1998 to 2004, she studied at

Vilnius University Vilnius University ( Lithuanian: ''Vilniaus universitetas'') is a public research university, which is the first and largest university in Lithuania, as well as one of the oldest and most prominent higher education institutions in Central and Ea ...

and graduated with a bachelor's and master's degrees in international relations and diplomacy. From 2000 to 2004, she studied law at

Mykolas Romeris University Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) is a public university located in Vilnius, Kaunas, Marijampolė, Lithuania. It was established in 1990 as the Lithuanian Police Academy and became Mykolas Romeris University in 2004, named after Professor Mykol ...

. She worked in the

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, the

, and the Lithuanian Embassy in

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. Since 2006, she taught at

Vilnius University Institute of International Relations and Political Science Vilnius University (Lithuanian language, Lithuanian: ''Vilniaus universitetas'') is a Public university, public research university, which is the first and largest university in Lithuania, as well as one of the oldest and most prominent higher e ...

. In 2009, she defended her

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on the topic “National self-awareness and the formation of statehood: the experience of the

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”, and became an associate professor. In 2009, she advised President Grybauskaitė, and coordinated the issues of the

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meetings. In 2012, after Darius Semaška's departure, she became the president's Chief Adviser - Head of the Foreign Policy Group. On 18 August 2015, Neliupšienė became the Lithuanian ambassador to the European Union, until August 2020. As of 2015, Neliupšienė was one of the 89 people from the European Union against whom Russia had imposed sanctions. She was interviewed by

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for a ''

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'' story on " mysterious Russian death syndrome", which was broadcast in November 2024.

References

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