Aušra Maldeikienė

Aušra Maldeikienė
MP
Member of the Seimas
for Žirmūnai constituency
Assumed office
14 November 2016
Preceded by Šarūnas Gustainis
Vilnius City Councilor
In office
22 April 2015 – 13 November 2016
Succeeded by Gintautas Terleckas
Personal details
Born (1958-06-04) 4 June 1958
Palanga, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union
Political party Independent
Alma mater Lomonosov Moscow State University
Profession Political economist, lecturer
Website www.maldeikiene.lt

Aušra Seibutytė-Maldeikienė (born 4 June 1958) is a Lithuanian economist, politician, lecturer, teacher, publicist and book author. Since 2016 she is a Member of the Seimas (Lithuanian Parliament).

Biography

After graduating from Antanas Vienuolis Secondary School (currently Vytautas Magnus High School) in Vilnius in 1976, Aušra Maldeikienė studied in the Faculty of Finance and Credit at the Vilnius University (then named Vilnius Order of the Red Banner of Labour State University of Vincas Kapsukas) and continued the studies in the Economics Faculty at the Lomonosov Moscow State University. She graduated from the latter in 1982, obtaining a qualification of Economist and Lecturer in Political Economy.

From 1982 to 1984 she worked in Vilnius University and lectured in Aleksandras Stulginskis University (then the Lithuanian Academy of Agriculture). She continued as an aspirant at the Lomonosov Moscow State University from 1984 till 1987 and defended her dissertation "Main economic law of the socialism under the conditions of intense economy" obtaining a Candidate of Economic Sciences degree (which in Lithuania is now recognized as PhD in Social Science). Later, in 2007, she also received a Master's degree in Religious Sciences at the Centre for Religious Studies and Research, Vilnius University.

Since 1987 she lectured in Lithuanian Veterinary Academy (now Veterinary Academy at the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences). Since 1990 she was a columnist and analyst in a national newspaper "Lietuvos rytas". From 1993 till 1997 she was a Spokesperson and Head of the Public Relations Unit in Vilnius bank (now SEB Bank). From 1997 till 2000 she was a chief editor of Business Section in the news agency Baltic News Service. From 1999 till 2003 she was a lecturer in the International Business School at Vilnius University (now Vilnius University Business School). From 1999 till 2000 she had undergone a course in media (column-writing) at Green Templeton College (the University of Oxford). From 2001 till 2013 she was a Teacher of Economics in Vilnius Jesuit High School and from 2004 till 2016 as an Associate Professor at the Department of Econometric Analysis, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius University.

She has written economic handbooks for schools, as well as the other books in topics of economics, finances and business, "Economy of Lies" becoming a bestseller in Lithuania [1], and translated 8 books of foreign authors to Lithuanian. She participated in column "Economist commentary" in national radio station "Žinių radijas", commented economic events, published articles in the nationals news portal DELFI, and has her own blog. Her publications include economic, social exclusion, taxes (value added tax, income tax, estate taxes), national institutions, e.g. Lithuanian social security fund SoDra, tax evasion, her regular reports of a work as a city council member, comments on public life and analysis of fiction literature.

After a period of membership in the Liberal Democratic Party (now Order and Justice), she was a candidate of the Civic Democratic party at the 2009 elections of the European Parliament. In 2015 Lithuanian municipal and 2016 Lithuanian parliamentary elections she participated together with a party "Lithuanian List", though she didn't become its member, and is currently an independent politician.

In 2015 she was elected to the Vilnius City Council.

In 2016 she was elected to the Seimas in a single-member district constituency of Žirmūnai (Vilnius City). As an MP she is a Deputy-Chair of Non-attached Members faction and serves as a Deputy-Chair of Committee on European Affairs and member of Committee on Audit, as well as a member in the Freedom Prize Commission and Commission for the Rights of People with Disabilities[2].

In June 2018 Aušra Maldeikienė affirmed her candidacy in the Lithuanian presidential election of 2019, announcing her electoral programme, composed of 95 theses[3], as an allusion to Ninety-Five Theses by Martin Luther that started the Reformation (though she is a Catholic herself).

Personal life

Her husband from 1979 till 2017 was Eugenijus Maldeikis, a Lithuanian economist, politician (former minister of Economy, the Seimas member, European Parliament member and Vilnius City Councillor).[4][5] They have two sons, Matas (born 1980) and Mykolas (born 1987).

Bibliography

  • Melo ekonomika: publicistika. – Vilnius: Alma littera, 2013. – 269 p. – ISBN 978-609-01-1161-1
  • Išmokite skaičiuoti savo pinigus. – 2-asis leidimas. – Vilnius: Tyto alba, 2005. – 388 p.: iliustr. – ISBN 9986-16-459-1

References

  1. ↑ "Critical of Lithuania's crybaby businessmen". The Baltic Times. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  2. ↑ . Aušra Maldeikienė - members of the Seimas. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  3. ↑ . Aušra Maldeikienė - Lietuvos Respublikos Prezidento rinkimai 2019. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  4. ↑ "Aušra Maldeikienė - apie skaudžią apsisprendimo kainą ir sutuoktinio žodžius". DELFI. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  5. ↑ "Skiriasi Aušra Maldeikienė: santuoka su Eugenijumi Maldeikiu truko 38 metus". 15min.lt. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
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