(1951-08-09) 9 August 1951 (age 72) Kyusyur, Soviet Union (now Russia)
Political party
Social Democratic Party of Lithuania (1989–present; suspended since 2014)[1]
Spouse
Irena Meižytė
Children
3
Education
Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Vilnius University
Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis (born 9 August 1951)[2] is WHO Special Envoy for the European region, the former European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, a heart surgeon, a co-signatory to the 1990 Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.
Andriukaitis' family was deported to Siberia in June 1941. He, his mother and two older brothers were allowed to return to Lithuania in 1958; his father returned in 1959.[3] After excelling at school, he enrolled at Kaunas Medical Institute, graduating in 1975. In 1976 Andriukaitis started his career in politics as a member of the underground Social Democrat movement, but later continued his studies by pursuing a degree in history at Vilnius University, graduating in 1984.
Andriukaitis was elected to the Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania, which preceded Seimas (Lithuanian Parliament), in 1990.[4] Andriukaitis was a member of the Lithuanian Parliament for six terms, from 1992 to 2004 and from 2008 to 2012, and was a deputy chairman of its council from 2001 to 2004.[5] He was a health minister of the Republic of Lithuania since December 2012 until the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker appointed him to serve as an EU Commissioner in November 2014. After the term as European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Andriukaitis became WHO Special Envoy for the European region in March 2020.
^""Socdemų" grietinėlei partijos patriarcho išsišokimas nepatiko: Iškilo net narystės partijoje klausimas".
^"Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). European Convention. 2002. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 June 2011. Retrieved 2 November 2008.
^"Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis" (in Lithuanian). Lithuanian Social Democratic Party. 2008. Archived from the original on 4 December 2008. Retrieved 2 November 2008.
^"Vytenis Andriukaitis" (in Lithuanian). Vytenis Andriukaitis. Retrieved 2 November 2008.
^"Member of the Seimas 2000–2004 Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis'". Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania. 2004. Retrieved 2 November 2008.
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