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 Dalia Grybauskaitė (born March 1, 1956) is the current President of the Republic of Lithuania, elected on May 17, 2009. After completing her studies in economics, she worked as a lecturer on political economy and the world history of money.
In 1993, she became Director of the Economic Relations Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A year later she was appointed the Extraordinary Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister at the Lithuanian Mission to the EU. She returned to Lithuania in 1999 and in the same year started working as Deputy Minister of Finance and later became Minister of Finance.
In 2004 Grybauskaitė was appointed EU Commissioner in charge of financial programming and budget of the European Union. After spending one-year in the European Commission, she was elected "Commissioner of the Year 2005." She was nominated for this title "for her unrelenting efforts to shift EU spending towards areas that would enhance competitiveness such as research and development."
The President speaks four foreign languages: English, Russian, Polish, and French and is fond of classical music, she likes to spend her leisure time reading and going in for sports.
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