Algirdas Šemeta | |
Office: | European Commissioner for Taxation and Customs Union, Audit and Anti-Fraud |
President: | José Manuel Barroso |
Term Start: | 9 February 2010 |
Term End: | 1 November 2014 |
Office1: | European Commissioner for Financial Programming and the Budget |
President1: | José Manuel Barroso |
Term Start1: | 1 July 2009 |
Term End1: | 9 February 2010 |
Predecessor1: | Dalia Grybauskaitė |
Successor1: | Janusz Lewandowski |
Birth Date: | 23 April 1962 |
Birth Place: | Vilnius, Soviet Union |
Party: | Homeland Union |
Alma Mater: | Vilnius University |
Algirdas Gediminas Šemeta (born 23 April 1962) is a Lithuanian economist and politician.
A native of Vilnius, Algirdas Šemeta graduated in 1985 from Vilnius University's Faculty of Economic Cybernetics and Finance with a degree as economist-mathematician.[1] His previous position has been as Lithuania's Minister of Finance, which he fulfilled from December 2008 to June 2009, having already served in the post a decade earlier, from February 1997 to June 1999.[2] Šemeta has minimal business experience in the private sector, his career to date has been concentrated in public office as a civil servant.[3]
He was European Commissioner for Taxation and Customs Union, Audit and Anti-Fraud from July 2009 till November 2014.[4] [5] Following his Commission nomination by center-right Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius, Šemeta has affiliated himself with the European People's Party (EPP).[6] [7] Since December 2014 Šemeta is Business Ombudsman in Ukraine.[8]
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