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Rita Miliūtė is a journalist and TV host, founder of the public institution Miliūtė, who continuously takes part in missions providing aid to Ukraine at war.
Dr. Vytenis Juozas Deimantas is a demographer and head of data research infrastructures, and a researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences and the SHARE Berlin Institute. His work includes analysing population dynamics, studying social inequality, and applying data-driven insights in policymaking and public communication. With more than seven years of experience in managing international research projects, he has contributed to initiatives that connect academic knowledge with the needs of public institutions, non-governmental organisations, and European data infrastructures, particularly in the fields of social inclusion.
Domantė Platūkytė is a journalist at the LRT.lt news portal who is interested in politics, human rights, equality, and social policy issues.
Jeanette Sautner (BA Hons [Intercultural Communication], Trent University, 1994; LLB, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, 1998) joined the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 2000. At Headquarters, she has served as junior counsel in the Trade Law Bureau, senior officer in the Human Rights Policy Division, legal officer in the UN, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Division, deputy director of the Criminal, Security and Diplomatic Law Division, legal officer in the Oceans and Environmental Law Division, deputy director for pan-Africa affairs, deputy director, Consular Issues and International Engagement Program, and head of the Global Consular Affairs Secretariat. Overseas, she served as first secretary in Venezuela (2001 to 2003) and counsellor in Australia (2008 to 2012) and Poland (2019 to 2023).
Martinas Žaltauskas is a member of the Chief Official Ethics Commission. In 2005, he completed his bachelor’s studies at Klaipėda University, and in 2007 he obtained a master’s degree in public administration from Vilnius University. For four years (from 2001), he headed the Klaipėda Non-Governmental Organizations Information Center. From 2005 to 2019, he served as Director of the Non-Governmental Organizations Information and Support Center. From 2010 to 2012, he taught courses on programme and project management and strategic planning at Vilnius University. From 2017 to 2019, he was Chair of the Non-Governmental Organizations Council. On 5 December 2019, he was appointed by the Seimas (on the proposal of the Non-Governmental Organizations Council) to serve as a member of the Chief Official Ethics Commission.
Sandra Adomavičiūtė is the Director of the Open Lithuania Foundation.
Svitlana Zaluzhna is the founder of Open Nations NGO (Lithuania), Ukrainian community leader and dialogue facilitator.
Dainius Babilas is the Director of the Department of National Minorities under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania who has accumulated many years of experience in cultural management and education. He is an expert in intercultural activities who has worked with national minorities for many years and consistently emphasizes equal dialogue based on creative inclusion and cooperation. Babilas is actively involved in the activities of various Lithuanian organizations, and through his work he highlights the importance of building a more open, diverse society founded on mutual respect.
Dr. Laurynas Šedvydis is a Member of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania in 2024–2028, nominated by Lithuanian Social Democratic Party and the Chair of the parliamentary Committee on Human Rights, historian, doctor of humanities.
Prof. Dr. Milda Ališauskienė is a sociologist and scholar of religion. She has been teaching and conducting research at Vytautas Magnus University since 2004. Her research interests are the manifestation of religion in post-socialist societies, the interaction of religion and gender, religion and human rights, and religion and politics. In 2023, she published a monograph, “Minority Religions, Society and State in Contemporary Lithuania.” In 2021-2023, she led the international Baltic Research Programme project “Religion and Gender Equality: Baltic and Nordic Developments.” In 2021–2025, she was the Chair of the COST Action “Connecting Theory and Practical Issues of Migration and Religious Diversity” (COREnet). Since 2025, Prof. Ališauskienė is the Vice-President of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR). Since 2018, she has coordinated the National Human Rights Forum.
Milda Ališauskienė has been awarded National Equality and Diversity Awards in the categories of Religious Diversity (in 2015) and the Breakthrough of the Year (2019).
Eglė Striungytė is the Deputy Head at the European Commission Representation in Lithuania.
Mindaugas Jackevičius is the editor-in-chief of lrt.lt and the anchor of the television show “Topic of the Day” (Lith. “Dienos tema”) at the Lithuanian national television and the radio section “LRT News Studio” (Lith. “LRT aktualijų studija”) at the Lithuanian national radio. He specializes in the topics of politics, emigration, human rights, social policy and education.
Juozas Olekas is the Speaker of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania.
Dr. Dovilė Jakniūnaitė is a political scientist, a professor at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science of Vilnius University, and the author of books and articles. She analyzes issues of foreign policy and security, debates on the international order and its future, researches the vanishing and emerging borders in world politics and questions of mobility, and focuses on the security situation in Europe in the context of the war in Ukraine. She also examines issues of gender equality and women’s participation in politics.
Dr. Justinas Žilinskas is an international lawyer, a specialist in international humanitarian law, a professor at the Institute of International and European Union Law of Mykolas Romeris University, a publicist, writer, children’s literature author, blogger, and popularizer of science.
Dr. Gabija Grigaitė-Daugirdė is the former Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs and of Justice, responsible for issues of international legal responsibility of Russia and Belarus, Lithuania’s legal initiatives in the field of accountability for these regimes, as well as matters related to the implementation of human rights, Lithuania’s representation in international organizations, and sanctions policy. She has worked as Legal Advisor to President Dalia Grybauskaitė, at the Ministry of Finance, and in the Seimas Audit Committee. For more than 15 years, she has been teaching international law subjects (public international law, international humanitarian law, international criminal law) at the Vilnius University Faculty of Law and other academic institutions.
Dr. Skirmantas Bikelis is a legal scholar and senior researcher at the Law Institute of the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences, as well as the author of four monographs and more than 30 academic articles. He studies issues of criminal justice and is actively interested in questions of human rights and the protection of democracy.
Roberta Salynė is a journalist at 15min.lt. She has completed studies in journalism and contemporary Asian studies and has been working as a political current affairs journalist for more than 20 years.
Birutė Sabatauskaitė is the Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson of the Republic of Lithuania. She is a lawyer who headed the Human Rights Monitoring Institute from 2013 to 2021, where she had been working since 2010, and from 2018 to 2021 she was a member of the European Network of Legal Experts in the Non-discrimination Field. At the National Human Rights Forum, she will present the main insights from the reviews prepared by the Office of the Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson in 2025, “Experiences of Transgender Persons in Employment Relationships: Challenges and Prospects,” and in 2024, “The Situation of Transgender Persons in Lithuania: A National Review.”
Lina Januškevičiūtė is the Director of the public institution Įvairovės Edukacijos Namai (Diversity Education House), a sexuality education expert, and a human rights educator. For more than 10 years, she has been leading non-formal education trainings for adults and educational sessions for young people on topics such as sexuality, human rights, gender equality, and the prevention of bullying based on identity.
Monika Antanaitytė is a lawyer and project manager at the National LGBT Rights Organization LGL. She studied at Mykolas Romeris University and continued her development at Maastricht University and OSCE trainings, and did internships in Belgium, Germany, Japan, and other countries. She has been working in the field of human rights since 2013, and from 2017 to 2019 she was elected as a board member of the Human Rights Organizations Coalition. She has been involved in LGBT activism since 2019.
Jūratė Ruzaitė is a professor at Vytautas Magnus University who obtained her PhD from the University of Bergen in Norway. She specializes in critical discourse analysis and in the study of hate speech and discriminatory discourses, focusing mainly on the role of language in shaping societal attitudes towards minority groups and otherness. Prof. Dr. Ruzaitė has extensive experience participating in international and national research projects, including the national project Semantika-2 (2018–2019), during which a tool for the automatic detection of offensive online comments was developed. She is currently leading a project funded by the Research Council of Lithuania (LMT), Features and Criteria of Hate Speech: Linguistic and Legal Analysis, which aims to develop a multi-layered model of criteria for identifying hate speech and to carry out an integrated linguistic–legal analysis. She is also a board member of the International Language and Law Association and the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics. In her monograph Neapykantos kalba (Hate Speech), published in 2024, the author presents a comprehensive analysis of hate speech in Lithuania, based on court case data and methods of linguistic analysis.
Agnieška Avin Ileri is an anthropologist, Educator at Padėk Pritapti (PP), a junior researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the LCSS and a PhD student. She graduated from Vytautas Magnus University with a Master’s degree in Social Anthropology. She is interested in the history of Lithuanian Roma, social exclusion and systemic discrimination.
Svetlana Novopolskaja is the Director of the public institution Roma Community Centre (since 2021). She was born and lives in Vilnius and graduated from Vilnius University with a degree in philology and teaching. She has worked in the education system for more than 15 years.
Faina Kukliansky is a lawyer and lobbyist who has served as the Chair of the Lithuanian Jewish (Litvak) Community since 2013. She is a member of both Lithuanian and international legal associations. Faina Kukliansky is also a member of the Lithuanian delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) and a member of the Executive Committee of the European Jewish Congress (EJC). Kukliansky has made significant efforts to secure the return of property belonging to Jewish communities. In 2016, she participated in the initiative group of the Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania on amendments to the Law on Citizenship of Lithuania, ensuring the citizenship rights of Jews who left Lithuania in the interwar period and their descendants. Since 2025, Kukliansky has been a member of the working group tasked with drafting an action plan to combat antisemitism, xenophobia or any other form of incitement to hatred and to promote Jewish life.
Donatas Puslys is a Lithuanian journalist and culture commentator who actively examines social issues, the development of civil society, memory politics, as well as topics of democracy and culture. He currently heads the Media Programme at the Vilnius Institute for Policy Analysis.
Dr. Laima Liucija Andrikienė is the signatory of the Act of 11 March 1990 on the Re-establishment of the State of Lithuania, Doctor of Social Sciences, and Associate Professor. Since November 2022, Andrikienė has been Lithuania‘s delegated Member of the European Court of Auditors.
Laima Andrikienė was a member of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania (1990–2000, 2020–2022); chair of the Seimas Committee on Foreign Affairs (January-November 2003), member of the Seimas delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE, December 2020 – November 2022), and Vice-President of PACE (January 2021 – January 2022).
Laima Andrikienė was a member of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, the Minister of European Affairs (1996–1998).
Laima Andrikienė was a Member of the European Parliament (2024–2014, 2016–2019), member of EP committees on International Trade and Foreign Affairs as well as a member and Vice-President of the Subcomittee on Human Rights.
Scientific research and teaching activities: Director of the Institute of European Union Policy and Management at the Law University of Lithuania (2002–2003), Dean of the Faculty of State Governance (2003–2004).
Ms. Jūratė Juškaitė is the Director of the Lithuanian Centre for Human Rights, Chair of the Coalition of Human Rights Organisations (2025–2026 term), and human rights activist focusing on human rights and the situation of minorities in modern society.
Kęstutis Kupšys is the Vice President of the Consumer Alliance and the Executive Director of the organization “For Fair Banking,” and a former member of the European Economic and Social Committee. He actively participates in national and European Union debates on economic and social justice, consumer rights, financial inclusion, and the sustainable financial sector.
While serving on the European Economic and Social Committee from 2020 to 2025, he consistently raised issues of human rights, social justice, and climate justice, emphasizing that the climate crisis increasingly also means a human rights crisis. Kupšys graduated in economic cybernetics from Vilnius University and has further studied financial markets, business administration, and philosophy at higher education institutions in Germany and Lithuania.
Ugnė Užgalė is the Head of the Strategic Decision Support Group at the Ministry of Social Security and Labour of the Republic of Lithuania. She coordinates the development of social policy in the ministry, with particular focus on evidence-based policymaking and data analysis. In her work, Užgalė devotes considerable attention to poverty reduction and minimum income guarantees, and actively participates in national and international working groups as an expert.
Rūta Juodelytė is a Senior Adviser at the Equal Opportunities Mainstreaming Group of the Office of the Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson.
Aidas Stoškus is the Head of the Data Protection Division at the State Data Agency.
Rugilė Butkevičiūtė is co-founder of the NGO Ribologija.
Ignas Kalpokas completed PhD studies in political science at the University of Nottingham (UK) in 2016. Since 2015, he has been working at Vytautas Magnus University, currently as an associate professor and senior researcher. Kalpokas also works as associated professor at the LCC International University and is a member of the Comittee for the Doctoral Studies in Communications at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. Ignas Kalpokas did an internship at the University of Pavia (on scholarship from the Government of Italy) and Marymount University (on Fulbright scholarship). His main research priorities include the social impact of artificial intelligence theories, digital transformations, algorithmic governance and information security.
Rasa Lukaitytė-Vnarauskienė is the editor-in-chief of the news portal Delfi.
Marius Gurskas is the Director of Communication at the Office of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania.
Dr. Kristina Juraitė is a professor and head of the Department of Public Communication at Vytautas Magnus University, one of the founders of UNESCO Chair on Media and Information Literacy (MIL) for Inclusive Knowledge Societies as well as the coordinator of Diacomet, a European Horizon project for dialogical communication ethics and accountability.Her scientific interests include transformations of mediated communication and civil society, media and information literacy, digital resiliance, dialogical communication and ethics.
Indrė Širvinskaitė is the President of the Lithuanian Disability Forum and the Deputy Chair of the Commission for the Monitoring of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities under the Office of the Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson.
Vytautas Mizaras is a Justice of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania (since 2021), a professor at Vilnius University, and a doctor of social sciences (in the field of law) who has completed a habilitation procedure.
Vytautas Mizaras completed his law studies at Vilnius University in 1997, and in 1998 he finished additional master’s (LL.M.) studies at the J. W. Goethe University in Frankfurt. He has undertaken traineeships at the University of Pavia and, on numerous occasions, at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich. From 1999 to 2001, Vytautas Mizaras served as an adviser to the Minister of Justice on issues of civil law and civil procedure law. From 2002 to 2021, he practiced as an attorney and was a partner at the law firm Ellex Valiunas.
Since 1997, he has been engaged in teaching and research at the Faculty of Law of Vilnius University. From 2003 to 2015, he served as Head of the Department of Private Law at the VU Faculty of Law, and since 2016 he has overseen the Centre for European Private Law and Intellectual Property Law at the same faculty. From 2018 to 2021, he was Chair of the Board of the Human Rights Monitoring Institute. From 2016 to 2021, he served as the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Austria in Lithuania.
The main areas of Vytautas Mizaras’ scholarly activity are civil law, tort law, intellectual property law, and the protection of international and EU human rights. He is the author and co-author of books and academic articles in the field of law, as well as a member of the editorial boards and a reviewer for several foreign scholarly journals.
Vida Augustinienė is the Chair of the Council of Representatives of Patients’ Organisations of Lithuania.
Darius Giruckas is the head of the Legal Department at the State Health Care Accreditation Agency under the Ministry of Health, with more than 20 years of experience in the health care field. For over 13 years, he has handled duties in the supervision of health care institutions, the examination of patients’ complaints, and representation in court, and he has extensive experience in legislative drafting.
Edvardas Kubiliusis a journalist and a host at the Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT), Associate Professor (by partnership) at Vilnius University Faculty of Communication.
Dr. Erika Leonaitė is the Seimas Ombudsperson investigating the activities of state institutions and officials, head of the Seimas Ombudspersons’ Office. Her academic interests are the development of international human rights protection standards and international law. A doctor of legal sciences and lecturer at the Institute of International Relations and Political Sciences and the Faculty of Law of Vilnius University, E. Leonaitė has worked at the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania and since 2017 – at the Human Rights Monitoring Institute, where she focused mainly on the topics of domestic violence, victims’ rights and the right to a fair trial.
Dr. Mindaugas Nefas is the Vice-Chancellor of Education Academy at Vytautas Magnus University.
Ona Marija Vyšniauskė is the Head of the British Council in Lithuania.
Robert Duchnevič is the Mayor of Vilnius District Municipality.
Ernest Alesin is the Head of the Association of Ethnic Minority Media in Lithuania.
Dr. Edita Žiobienė is the Ombudsperson for Child‘s Rights, Professor of Practice at the Institute of Public Law, Mykolas Romeris University School of Law. Edita Žiobienė has many years of experience in the protection of human rights in various capacities as head of the Centre for Human Rights (2004-2010), chair of the Ethics Commission for Journalists and Publishers (2005-2010), member of the Central Electoral Commission (2008-2010), member and vice-chair of the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (2010-2020), and member of various expert groups of the European Union and the Council of Europe.
Prof. Dr. Ineta Dabašinskienė is the Rector of Vytautas Magnus University, Professor at the Department of Lithuanian Studies, Head of the Centre of Multilingualism and Intercultural Communication, Chief Researcher at the Institute of Digital Resources and Interdisciplinary Research, full member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. When VMU joined the Transform4Europe Alliance, Prof. Dabašinskienė became its institutional coordinator.
Prof. Dr. Dabašinskienė is an active coordinator and partner of international projects, a former expert for the European Commission’s science programmes, and a former expert in the High-Level Group on Multilingualism under the European Commissioner for Multilingualism. Prof. Dabašinskienė has been working at Vytautas Magnus University since 1993 in various positions, including Vice-Dean and Dean of the Faculty of Political Science and Diplomacy, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, and Vice-Rector for International Relations. She has earned various awards such as Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, the Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania, the European Commission’s silver medal and others.
Inga Samoškaitė is an international security and defense expert.
Milda Matulaitytė-Feldhausen is a war journalist working in the hottest war zones in Ukraine.
Dr. Rūta Ubarevičienė is a social geographer whose research interests include spatial inequality, social segregation, internal migration, depopulation, and housing issues. She holds research positions at the Urbanism Department / Delft University of Technology, and at the Department of Regional and Urban Studies / Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences. Dr. Ubarevičienė serves as the Chair of the Young Academy of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences.
Ignas Andriukevičius is a TV and Radio presenter.
Ieva Laugalytė is an adviser at the Office of the Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson, co-author of the study on discrimination experienced by foreign nationals in the housing rental market.
Aistė Adomavičienė, director of Lithuanian Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN Lithuania), with over ten years of experience in the fields of social exclusion, human rights, and welfare policy. She actively engages in dialogue with state institutions and international partners, contributing to social policy development. Aistė is also a lecturer, conducting training and consulting NGOs, and moderating discussions in Lithuania and other European countries. She represents NGOs working on poverty and exclusion in national and international working groups.
Dr. Tadas Šarūnas is a sociologist at Vilnius University. His academic interests include spatial social segregation, cultural behaviours and housing choices. Tadas actively works with the architectural community in promoting alternative housing development models.
Darius Matas is a journalist and radio host at the Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT). In his professional work and daily life, Darius Matas adheres to three main principles: to speak the truth, even if it is uncomfortable; to critically evaluate the environment and his own beliefs; and to listen to and accept different opinions. For over a decade, Darius Matas has been conducting training sessions, seminars, and workshops on topics such as human rights and media literacy. He has been actively working in the media for seven years and has experience across various platforms: television, radio, news portals, and newspapers. He believes that it is education, not bans or censorship, that will save the world.
Prof. Dr. Dalia Leinartė is a member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee.
