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Gitanas Nausėda (born 19 May 1964) is a Lithuanian politician and the President of Lithuania, elected on 26 May 2019.
From 1982 to 1987 he studied in Vilnius University, Faculty of Industrial Economics and from 1987 to 1989 in the Faculty of Economics. From 1990 to 1992 he did a practice at the University of Mannheim in Germany under the DAAD scholarship. He defended his PhD thesis "Income Policy Under Inflation and Stagflation" in 1993. Since 2009 he is an associate professor at Vilnius University Business School.
Having completed his studies, from 1992 to 1993 he worked for the Research Institute for Economics and Privatization. From 1993 to 1994 he worked for the Lithuanian Competition Council as a head of the Financial Markets Department. From 1994 to 2000 he worked at the Bank of Lithuania, initially in the department regulating the commercial banks and later as a director of the Monetary Policy Department. From 2000 to 2008 he was a chief economist and adviser to the chairman of AB Vilniaus Bankas. From 2008 to 2018 he was the financial analyst as well as chief adviser and later the chief economist for the SEB Bankas president.
Economist Gitanas Nausėda withdrew from the race for the nomination as the Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats' presidential candidate because he could not risk losing to MP Ingrida Šimonytė in the primaries, a political analyst said on Monday.
MP Ingrida Šimonytė and diplomat Vygaudas Ušackas said on Monday they would seek the nomination as the Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats' candidate in next May's president election.
Lithuanian diplomat Vygaudas Ušackas says he will seeks the country's opposition conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats' support in his bid to be elected the country's president next year.
Lithuania's MP and former Finance Minister Ingrida Šimonytė on Monday announced her decision to take part in the primaries of the opposition conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, held to select a presidential candidate.
Financial analyst Gitanas Nausėda on Monday announced his decision not to take part in the presidential primaries of the opposition conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats.
Lithuania's former Finance Minister Ingrida Šimonytė will announce later on Monday whether she will run for president after being nominated by part of branches of the opposition conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats.
The Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS) plans to name its presidential candidate late this year or early next year, the ruling party's leader said on Tuesday, adding that he or she will be a person who will represent "the grassroots" of society.
Žygimantas Pavilionis, a lawmaker of the conservative Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats, on Monday announced his decision not to run in his party's primaries for next May's presidential election.
Economist Gitanas Nausėda has on Monday announced his decision to run for Lithuanian president.
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is back on the list of the top three potential candidates for next spring's presidential election in Lithuania, according to an opinion poll released by Delfi.lt on Thursday.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Thursday that she will not publicly support any candidate to replace her when her second presidential term ends next year.
Vygaudas Ušackas, a Lithuanian diplomat and former foreign minister, announced on Wednesday his decision to stand in next May's presidential election.
Vygaudas Ušackas, a Lithuanian diplomat and former foreign minister, plans to announce on Wednesday whether or not he will run in next year's presidential election.