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Ambassador

Ambassador

Valdas Lastauskas

Ambassador

Date of birth February 25th, 1967
Place of birth Marijampole, Lithuania

Education

1985 - 1992 Vilnius University, Faculty of Law, Lawyer
1998 - 1999 St. Gallen University, Insurance Institute, Switzerland

Work experience

2026-07 -      

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Lithuania to the Arab Republic of Egypt, Hashemite Kindgdom of Jordan and the Arab League

2026-01 - 2026-07    

Chief Counsellor, Eastern Neighborhood Policy Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania

2021 - 2025

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of 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 of Lithuania to the Republic of Azerbaijan and to Turkmenistan
2013 - 2014

Chancellor of the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Lithuania

2011 - 2013   Chancellor of the 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, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania

1990 - 1991 Interrogator, Department of Interrogation of the Commissariat of Vilnius City Police

Miscellaneous

Diplomatic rang

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Languages

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

Marital status Married