Ambassador

Valdas Lastauskas

Ambassador

Date and place of birth

25 February 1967, Vilnius, Lithuania

Education

1992

Faculty of Law, Vilnius University

1998-1999

St. Gallen University, Insurance Institute, Switzerland

Work experience

3 December 2021 - present

Ambassador of the Republic Lithuania to the Republic of Latvia

2019-2021

General director, Personnel Management and Secondment Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of  the Republic of Lithuania

2014 - 2019

Ambassador of the Republic Lithuania to the Republic of Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan

2013 - 2014

Chancellor, Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Lithuania

2011 - 2013

Chancellor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania

2008 - 2011

Minister Counsellor, Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in the Republic of Poland

2005 - 2008

Minister Counsellor, Consulate General of the Republic of Lithuania in the Russian Federation (Kaliningrad district)

2005 - 2006

Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Vilnius University

1996 - 2005

Head of an Insurance company, lawyer

1993 - 1996

Consul, Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in the Republic of Poland

1991 - 1993

Chief Officer, Division of Consular Contracts, Consular Department,   Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania

1990 - 1991

Interrogator, Department of Interrogation, Commissariat of Vilnius City Police

Diplomatic rank

Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary

Miscellaneous

Languages

Lithuanian (mother longue), German, Polish, Russian, English

Marital status

Married