Permanent Representative
Permanent Representative
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Rytis PaulauskasAmbassador |
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Diplomatic service |
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May 2021 - Current |
Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Lithuania to the United Nations | ||
August 2020 | Head, Working group to coordinate strategic communications related to the unsafe nuclear projects | ||
October 2017 | Member, Steering Committee of the Venice Club of Communicators | ||
2016 - 2021 | Director, Communications and Cultural Diplomacy Department, MFA | ||
2016 | Member of the recruitment selection panel of a new Implementation Support Unit (ISU) Director for the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction/ Ottawa Convention; | ||
2015 | Vice-Chairman of the Protocol V of the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons | ||
2014 - 2015 | Member and the Vice-Chair of the Consultative Group of the Human Rights Council | ||
2013 | Government Vice-President of the 102nd Session of the International Labor Conference | ||
April 2012 - July 2016 | Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Lithuania to the UN and other International Organizations in Geneva | ||
2008 - 2012 | Director of the OSCE Chairmanship Department/ Head of OSCE Chairmanship Task Force | ||
2006 | Chairman of the General Working Group, Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies; Co-Chairman of Working Group on Non-Military Aspects of Security, OSCE | ||
November 2003 - August 2008 | Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Lithuania to the UN, OSCE, IAEA and other International Organizations in Vienna | ||
February - October 2003 | Director of Security Policy Department, MFA Executive Secretary of the Lithuanian Delegation for Negotiations on Accession to NATO Member of the Working Group on the Preparation of the National Security Strategy |
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2001 - February 2003 | Director of Multilateral Relations Department, MFA Deputy Head of the Working Group on the Lithuanian Presidency of the Council of Europe |
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1999 - 2000 |
Head, Security Policy Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania |
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1996 - 1999 | Deputy Permanent Representative of the Republic of Lithuania to the United Nations, Legal Counselor of the Mission Elected as Rapporteur of the Sixth (Legal Affairs) Committee of the General Assembly of the United Nations |
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1995 - 1996 | Counselor, Permanent Mission of Lithuania to the United Nations, New York, USA Representative at the Third (Human Rights) and Sixth (Legal Affairs) Committees, Commission on Human Rights |
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1994 - 1995 | Deputy Permanent Representative of Lithuania to the Council of Europe, Strasbourg Member of the Working Group for the Compatibility of Lithuania’s Legislation with the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and the Case Law of the European Commission of Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights |
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1993 - 1994 | First Secretary, Permanent Representation of Lithuania to the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France | ||
1991 - 1993 | Attaché, then Acting Head, International Organizations Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania | ||
Education and qualifications |
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November 2022 – January 2023 | MIT Sloan School of Management , Executive Education course on “Mastering Negotiation and Influence” | ||
May-June 2022 | Visiting Academic Fellow with the Oxford Department of International Development – University of Oxford | ||
2020 | (postponed due to pandemic) Visiting Study Fellow with the Oxford Department of International Development – University of Oxford | ||
June 2016 | Harvard Kennedy School’s “Leadership Decision Making: Optimizing Organizational Performance” | ||
May 2015 | Harvard Kennedy School’s “Art and Practice of Leadership Development: A Master Class for Professional Trainers, Educators, and Consultants” HKS Executive Education Fellowship | ||
September 2014 | Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education program “Leadership for the 21st Century: Chaos, Conflict and Courage”, HKS Executive Education Fellowship | ||
2012 | Research Scholar at the Fletcher School; US Federal Assistance Award | ||
2000 - 2001 | Master of Arts Degree, Fulbright Scholar; The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA; cross registration with J. F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | ||
1992 |
Training courses, Academy of International Law, The Hague, Netherlands |
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1987 - 1992 | Vilnius University Law School, L.L.M., Vilnius, Lithuania | ||
Academic activities/ Publications |
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2016 - current |
Partnership doctor, Institute of International Relations and Political Science Vilniaus University The course of lectures on adaptive leadership |
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2010 - 2012 |
Lecturer, Institute of International Relations and Political Science Vilniaus University The course of lectures on international organizations |
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Decorations |
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Languages |
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English, Russian, French (B.1) and Lithuanian (mother tongue) |
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Hobbies |
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Reading, theater and cinema, old-timer cars and their restoration |