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Mr
Šarūnas LIEKIS
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Education and academic and other
qualifications - Higher Doctorate
(postdoctoral academic degree), Vilnius University,
Lithuania (2005) - Miles Lerman Research
Fellow, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies,
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington
DC, USA (2001-2002) - PhD, Brandeis
University, Waltham, USA (1997) - Graduate
studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
(1995-1996) - MA, Vilnius University (1993)
- Diploma, Oxford University, United Kingdom
(1992) Professional activities
(a) Present positions
- Professor and Dean, Faculty
of Political Science and Diplomacy, Vytautas Magnus
University, Kaunas, Lithuania (2010-now) -
Professor Guarantor, University of SS. Cyril and
Methodius (UCM), Trnava, Slovakia (2009-now)
(b) Work at national level
- Director of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute,
Faculty of History, University of Vilnius
(2001-2012) - Professor (2006-2010) and
Associate Professor (2001-2006), Department of
Politics, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius
- Expert for the Lithuanian Department for
Minorities (2003-2010) - Chairman, Board of
the NGO Information and Support Center, Vilnius
(2000-2005) - Assistant Professor,
Department of History, Vilnius University
(1999-2000) - Director of Programmes, Open
Society Fund Lithuania (1997-2001) -
Attaché, Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
(1992-1993) (c) International
work - Member of the Advisory
Group to the Lithuanian Chairmanship of the OSCE
(2011) - Deputy member in respect of
Lithuania, Management Board of the European
Monitoring Board on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC)
(2004-2008) - Member, Phare Civil Society
Expert Board (1998-2000) (d)
Other activities - Member of
the Board of Higher Education of Lithuania
- Research and Teaching Assistant, Sakharov
Archives, Brandeis University (1993-1997)
Publications and other works
Author of eight books and volumes as editor or
co-editor. Member of the editorial boards of nine
academic journals. Published over 50 academic
articles and over 40 popular articles.
Language skills - Mother
tongue: Lithuanian - Fluent: English, Polish,
Russian, Yiddish - Working knowledge: German,
Hebrew, Slovak
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