Andrius Avizius

Director of the Political Committee

Andrius joined the Assembly in 2005 as the Director of the Science and Technology Committee. In 2011, he became the Director of the Committee on the Civil Dimension of Security and since 2020 he directs the Political Committee.

Prior to joining the Assembly, between 1997 and 2005, Andrius worked at the International Relations Department of the Seimas (Parliament) of Lithuania. His areas of responsibility included, inter alia, the inter-parliamentary relations with the United States and Lithuania's participation in the work of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

In March-July 2000, Andrius was a Research Assistant at the NATO PA. In November 2001 and November 2004, he was OSCE election supervisor and observer in Kosovo and the United States.

Andrius studied at the Institute of the International Relations and Political Science of the Vilnius University where he earned a B.A. in political science in 1998, and as a Master degree in European studies in 2001. His Master’s thesis examined the evolution of the European Security and Defence Policy. He also holds a Master degree in International Relations from King’s College London, where his thesis discussed how the Kremlin’s uses of history explain Russia’s foreign policy. He studied international relations as an exchange student at the Universities of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Oslo, Norway. He attended courses and seminars on international politics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, and Chicago and Washington, D.C., United States.

Andrius’s mother tongue is Lithuanian, he is fluent in English and Russian, and has a working knowledge of French.