Ms. Ingrida Šimonytė, Minister of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania, has been appointed EIB Governor for the Republic of Lithuania succeeding Mr Algirdas Gediminas Šemeta.
Born on 15 November 1974 in Vilnius, Ms Ingrida Šimonytė graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Vilnius University with Bachelors’ Degree in Business Administration in 1996 and graduated with Master’s Degree in Finance two years later.
Before being appointed Minister of Finance of the Fifteenth Government by Presidential Decree on 7 July 2009, Ms Ingrida Šimonytė worked as Head of Indirect Taxes Division, Tax Department of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania, between 1998 and 2001, and as Director of Tax Department between 2002 and 2004. From 2004 to 2009 she was Undersecretary of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania.