Vytenis Andriukaitis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Vytenis Andriukaitis

Lithuanian physician/politician

Date of Birth: 09-Aug-1951

Place of Birth: Kyusyur, Sakha Republic, Russia

Profession: politician, Esperantist

Nationality: Lithuania

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis (born 9 August 1951) was Lithuania's European Commissioner, a heart surgeon, and a co-signatory to the 1990 Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania. Andriukaitis' family was deported to Siberia in June 1941.
He, his mother and two older brothers were allowed to return to Lithuania in 1958; his father returned in 1959.
After excelling at school, he enrolled at Kaunas Medical Institute, graduating in 1975.
In 1976 Andriukaitis started his career in politics as a member of the underground Social Democrat movement, but later continued his studies by pursuing a degree in history at Vilnius University, graduating in 1984. Andriukaitis was elected to the Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania, which preceded Seimas (Lithuanian Parliament), in 1990.
Andriukaitis was a member of the Lithuanian Parliament for six terms, from 1992 to 2004 and from 2008 to 2012, and was a deputy chairman of its council from 2001 to 2004.
He was a health minister of the Republic of Lithuania since December 2012 until the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker appointed him to serve as an EU Commissioner in November 2014.