Valdas Adamkus: Insights on Leadership and Education from Lithuania’s Former President 🇱🇹

Valdas Adamkus was President of Lithuania from 1998 to 2003 and again from 2004 to 2009.

Under the presidency of Valdas Adamkus, Lithuania actively promoted democracy in the formerly Soviet Eastern European and Asian nations. President Adamkus, together with President Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Javier Solana, Boris Gryzlov and Ján Kubiš, served as a mediator during Ukraine's political crisis.

President Adamkus supported an active dialogue between European Union member states and those former Soviet republics such as Georgia, Ukraine, and Moldova, that are actively seeking membership in the EU.

Valdas Adamkus holds honorary doctorates at universities in Lithuania (including ISM University of Management and Economics), the United States and other countries.