Rasa Budbergytė

Lithuanian politician

Rasa Budbergytė


Member of the Seimas
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 November 2016
Constituency	Multi-member
Minister of Finance of Lithuania
In office 20 June 2016 – 13 December 2016
Prime Minister	Algirdas Butkevičius
Preceded by	Rimantas Šadžius
Succeeded by	Vilius Šapoka

Personal details
Born	(1960-10-08) 8 October 1960 (age 63) Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union
Political party	Social Democratic Party
Website	Official website

Rasa Budbergytė (born 8 May 1960) is a Lithuanian politician and a member of the Seimas. She previously served as state's Auditor General, member at European Court of Auditors and Minister of Finance.^[1]

Early life

Budbergytė was born on 8 May 1960 in Plungė. She went to secondary schools in Plungė and Prienai before enrolling Faculty of Law at Vilnius University.^[2]

Career

During 1983–85, Budbergytė led the general affairs division of Marijampolė City Council. In September 1998, she was made the Vice-Minister of Justice, a post she retained till December 2000.^[3] She has also served as a legal adviser to the Ministry of International Economic Relations (1992–93) and Auditor General (2010–2010). She was an assistant professor at the Vilnius University from 1997 to 2005.^[2]

In 2016, she was briefly appointed to be the Minister of Finance of Lithuania, since the previous minister, Rimantas Šadžius replaced her at European Court of Auditors .^[3] She was a minister till new election. In 2016 Lithuanian parliamentary election she won a Seimas seat with Social Democratic Party of Lithuania. Currently she is the deputy chair of the Committee on European Affairs.^[2]

References

^ "After Restoration of Independence". finmin.lrv.lt.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Rasa Budbergytė". Seimas. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
^ ^a ^b "Rasa Budbergytė, new Governor for Lithuania". European Investment Bank. Retrieved 30 November 2017.