Jurgita Petrauskienė, born 1975 March 30th in

Utena Utena () is a city in north-east Lithuania. It is the administrative center of Utena district and Utena County. Utena is one of the oldest settlements of Lithuania. The name of the city is most probably derived from a hydronym. The name of the ...

, is a

Lithuania Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P ...

n politician. She served as the Minister of Education and Science in the cabinet of Prime Minister

Saulius Skvernelis Saulius Skvernelis (born 23 July 1970) is a Lithuanian politician who served as prime minister of Lithuania between 2016 and 2020. He had previously served as police commissioner, and was Minister of the Interior from 2014 to 2016. Though he was ...

from 13 December 2016 to 7 December 2018.

Algirdas Monkevičius Algirdas Monkevičius (born 29 March 1956) is a teacher and Lithuanian politician, who is the former Minister of Education and Science. Biography In 1974 he finished Rietavas secondary school, and in 1979 Šiauliai Pedagogical Institute, Ph ...

was appointed as her successor. She is currently married to her former classmate Evaldas Petrauskas. She also has two children, Jonas and Julija.

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