Jurgita Šiugždinienė

Jurgita Šiugždinienė (born 1 March 1972) is a Lithuanian politician, a former Member of the Seimas for Šilainiai constituency, Minister of Education, Science and Sports and former Kaunas City Councillor.

On 7 December 2020, she was approved to be the Minister of Education, Science and Sports in the Šimonytė Cabinet.

Biography Šiugždinienė studied in Kaunas University of Technology. From 2013 to 2015, she was the Dean of this faculty. From 2015 until 2017, Šiugždinienė was Kaunas University of Technology Vice-Rector for Studies. Since 2018 she has been Head of the Strategic Group of the Homeland Union Secretariat. From 2019 to 2020 she was a member of Kaunas City Municipality Council.

Šiugždinienė was elected as Member of the Seimas for Šilainiai constituency in October 2020. In December 2020 she became Minister of Education, Science and Sports. Instead, she started leading the EU4Belarus programme, which is controlled by the Central Project Management Agency, which helps the Belarusian diaspora who fled the country settle.