LeonidasDonskis

General Data

 * Born on 13 August 1962, Klaipėda
 * Country: Lithuania
 * Political Group: Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) Party: Lietuvos Respublikos liberalų sąjūdis

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 * Parlement européen
 * Parlement européen


 * Email: [mailto:leonidas.donskis@europarl.europa.eu leonidas.donskis(at)europarl.europa.eu]
 * Page on European Parliament website: www.europarl.europa.eu/members/expert/alphaOrder/view.do?language=EN&id=96692

Functions in European Parliament

 * Committee on Development (Member)
 * Subcommittee on Human Rights (Member)
 * Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (Member)
 * Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (Member)
 * Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (Substitute)
 * Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (Substitute)
 * Delegation for relations with Israel (Substitute)
 * Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (Substitute)

Curriculum Vitae

 * Higher education diploma, Lithuanian State Conservatory, Klaipėda faculties, specialising in Lithuanian language, culture and theatre (1985)
 * Placement at the Department of Philosophy of Vilnius University (1985-1987)
 * Doctorate at the Department of Philosophy of Vilnius University (1987-1990)
 * Doctorate at the Department of Social and Moral Philosophy of the University of Helsinki (Finland, 1997-1999)
 * Doctor (philosophy), Humanities Department of Vilnius University, dissertation title: Culture in Crisis and the Philosophy of Culture (1990)
 * Doctor of social sciences (D.Soc.Sc.), Department of Social and Moral Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Finland, dissertation title: The End of Ideology and Utopia? Moral Imagination and Cultural Criticism in the Twentieth Century (nostrificated in Lithuania in 2006 as doctor of social sciences, subject area - sociology) (Finland, 1999)
 * Dean of the Political Science and Diplomacy School of Vytautas Magnus University, Professor of Political Science (2005-2009)
 * Associate professor, Department of Social and Moral Philosophy of the University of Helsinki (Finland, since 2002)
 * Visiting professor of philosophy and cultural theory, Tallinn University (Estonia, since 2003 (2005))
 * Author and host of the cultural discussion programme 'Be pykčio' (Pique-free) on the Lithuanian television station LTV (2003-2009)
 * Board member of the Sugihara Foundation 'Diplomats for Life' (since 2003)
 * President of the Institute for Liberal Thought (since 2008)
 * Member of the European Parliament, member of the ALDE Group, member of the Subcommittee on Human Rights and ALDE Group coordinator
 * Board member of the Global Initiative on Psychiatry (GIP) (since 2007)
 * Member of the Senate of the University of Klaipėda (1991-2001)
 * Member of Lithuania's National Prize Committee for Culture and Art (1992-1994)
 * Consultant for the journal Liaudies kultūra (Folk Culture) (since 1992)
 * Member of the editorial board of Metmenys (Patterns) (USA, since 1993)
 * Consultant for the journal Archiforma (Architectural Form) (since 1996)
 * Member of the editorial board of the periodical Akiračiai (Horizons) (since 2004)
 * Member of the editorial board of the journal Kultūros barai (Domains of Culture) (since 2004)
 * Member of the editorial board of the journal Bravissimo (since 2005)
 * Member of the editorial board of the academic journal Athena (since 2006)
 * Member of the editorial board of the academic journal Darbai (Works) (since 2006)
 * Director of the Open Society College (Invisible College) (1996-1997)
 * Chair of the Philosophy Department and Director of the Comparative Civilisations Centre at the University of Klaipėda (1991-1997 and 1995-1997)
 * Expert at the Open Society Institute (Budapest, Hungary, since 2000)
 * Member of the advisory council to the Rector of Lithuania Christian Fund College (LCC) (since 2001)
 * Member of the Board of Trustees at Vilnius Academy of Music and Theatre (since 2004)
 * Member of the Senate of Vytautas Magnus University (2005-2009)
 * Member of the editorial board of the academic Journal of Baltic Studies (since 2005) Member of the Standing Committee for the Humanities of the European Science Foundation (2005-2009)
 * Member of the Lithuanian PEN Club (since 2005)
 * Member of the Governing Board of the Lithuanian Human Rights Defence League (since 2005)
 * Member of the Council of the Global Initiative on Psychiatry (since 2005)
 * Named academic of the year by the Lithuanian television company LRT's campaign 'More sun, more light' campaign and the Research Council of Lithuania (2006)
 * Named Person of Tolerance of the Year by the newspaper Klaipėda (2006)
 * Named Kaunas Knight of Thought by the newspaper Laikinoji sostinė (2006)
 * European Commission Ambassador in Lithuania for Tolerance and Diversity (2004)
 * Founding and executive editor of the book series On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics for the international academic publishers Rodopi, Amsterdam, Netherlands, and New York, USA: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?SerieId=BALTIC (since 2004)
 * Executive editor of the Value Inquiry Book Series (VIBS) (from 2008)
 * Honours: Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau (Netherlands, 2008)
 * IREX research grant (USA, 1993-1994)
 * Fulbright lecturing grant (USA, 1994)
 * The Swedish Institute guest scholarship (Sweden, 1997-1998)
 * Visiting professorship at Dickinson College (USA, 1998-1999)
 * The Leverhulme Trust research fellowship (UK, 1999-2000)
 * Guest professorship at the University of Uppsala (Sweden, 2000)
 * Paschal P. Vacca Chair of Liberal Arts (distinguished visiting professorship), University of Montevallo (Alabama, USA, 2001-2002)
 * Fellowship at Collegium Budapest/Institute for Advanced Study (Hungary, 1 October 2003-29 February 2004)
 * Guest researchership at Stockholm University (Sweden, 2004)
 * Guest scholarship at the Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators (Visby, Sweden, 2005)
 * Nominal grant of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania (2007-2008)
 * Lithuanian state supreme research fellowship (2005-2006)
 * The Stasys Šalkauskis Award (2005)
 * The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania Award for the most significant published works on culture (2005)

Votes

 * 22/09/2010 - Rapport Gallo on enforcement of intellectual property rights in the internal market 62.5/100

Positions
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