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- Gintaras Steponavičius was born in Klaipėda, July 23, 1967.
- 1985 finished Vilnius Antanas Vienuolis secondary school.
- 1992 graduated from Vilnius University, the Faculty of Law.
- Studies and further training: the Hague Academy of International Law (the Netherlands); University of Copenhagen (Denmark); Institute of European Law, University of Birmingham (the United Kingdom); European University Institute, Academy of European Law, Florence (Italy); Royal University of Groningen (the Netherlands).
- 1989 – 1990 President of Vilnius Students’ Movement Council.
- 1991–1994 worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania.
- 1994–1996 contributor to the quarterly journal East European Constitutional Review (published by the University of Chicago), 1997–2000 columnist of the weekly Atgimimas.
- 1994–2000 coordinator of Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Lithuania.
- 1994–2004 lecturer at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University.
- 1997, 2000 elected to the Vilnius City Municipality Council.
- 2000–2004 Deputy Speaker of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania.
- 2000–2001 Head of the Parliamentary Committee on European Affairs, Member of the Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights.
- 2004–2006 Member of the Parliamentary Committee on Education, Science and Culture.
- 2006–2008 Member of the Committee of Legal Affairs.
- Since December 10, 2008 Minister of Education and Science.
- Member of the Lithuanian Liberal Movement since its establishment, Senior Deputy Chair of the Party.
- Foreign languages: English and Russian.
- Married, wife Ugnė (lawyer), son Mykolas, daughter Urtė.
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