GLL is currently implementing the project “Ecosystem for civic activation of professional diaspora” financed by the EEA Grants 2014-2021 through the Active Citizens Fund.
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Community of 2000+ Lithuanian professionals from 49 countries and 25 clubs contributing to the prosperity of Lithuania
PROGRAMS
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PROFESIONALES.LT
GLL partnered up with Swedbank to launch an open online database of women professionals Profesionalės.lt, with the goal of increasing the share of voice of women in the public debate formed by the Lithuanian media and event organizers. GLL network connects a significant amount of women professionals worldwide, and we believe easier access to them might quickly change the situation for the better. Read more and register here.
LT BIG BROTHER
With 200+ mentors in 20+ countries, LT Big Brother is starting the 13th mentorship season and now we open for mentee applications!
First and the only global voluntary mentorship programme aims to facilitate the transfer of professional knowledge and experience between established Lithuanian professionals and ambitious Lithuanian students. No matter if you are in London, Vilnius, or Melburn; no matter if you just graduated or willing to shift your established career into new horizons, you can turn to our global community of Lithuanian professionals for guidance and advice. Choose a mentor and apply before 31st of March here.
First and the only global voluntary mentorship programme aims to facilitate the transfer of professional knowledge and experience between established Lithuanian professionals and ambitious Lithuanian students. No matter if you are in London, Vilnius, or Melburn; no matter if you just graduated or willing to shift your established career into new horizons, you can turn to our global community of Lithuanian professionals for guidance and advice. Choose a mentor and apply before 31st of March here.
A yearly tradition, Global Lithuanian Awards are awarded to dedicated Lithuanian professionals from all over the world who contribute to the economy, science, and culture of Lithuania as well as its global standing. The Awards aim to acknowledge global professional achievements, sincere connection, and devotion of global Lithuanians, share their stories as role models for inspiration. Following the GLA, the Forum gathers Lithuanians with valuable expertise to share their insights and experience in a series of discussions on the topics most relevant to Lithuania’s development. Discover more…
As the pandemic disturbs traditional education processes, GLL along with Lithuanian learning innovation enthusiasts set off to empower technology to reboot the Lithuanian education system. Led by Business for Peace Award laureate GLL Board member Vladas Lašas, a new EdTech Lithuania initiative was kicked-off and shaped during the GLL Gathering 2020: Learning Fever on September 17th, 2020 in the Presidential Palace and online. Join the initiative at edtechlithuania.com
The program offers to Lithuanian businesses the services of global talent reach including job offer spread channels, employer branding and professional networking platforms, interactive ways to participate in regular GLL events. Discover more…
The facilitated cooperation of Clubs of Lithuanian Professionals Abroad – including monthly on-line meetings, record keeping and annual live meetings – meant to encourage their establishment, tackle the most important issues of financial and operational sustainability, create opportunities for live networkings and cooperations. Discover more…
With a strong belief in citizen empowerment, GLL called for Global Professionals to join GLL THINK&DO TANK as a platform for professionals to formulate research and data-based recommendations in key topics that shape the post-crisis reality. Discover more…
Follow GLL social media profiles on Facebook and LinkedIn for the most recent information on GLL Online Swaps of ideas, insights and important information in response to sudden changes in business, social, psychological environment globally. These changes evoked inspiring activity of global Lithuanian professionals eager to participate in the processes of crisis management as well as mitigation of its outcome.
The program brings together the most successful and experienced diaspora professionals to advice to growing Lithuanian companies, emerging innovators and entrepreneurs. Discover more…
The club functions as the platform for networking of global professionals who keep returning to Lithuania after international career. Follow information on GLL Facebook Page.
OUR PARTNERS
we are proud to cooperate
TRIBES GLOBAL LEADERS SEARCH links companies with global expats – Supervisory / Board level and C-level executives. Our service was born at Global Lithuanian Leaders – network of Lithuania-connected expats from 49 countries. Led by two founding partners – Dalia Petkevičienė, co-founder of GLL with 10 years experience of building global talent network as well as creating strategies of engaging Diaspora professionals for Baltic governments, and Irma Žilėnienė, international HR and recruitment professional with 15 years experience of working with Baltic and CIS top talent and global companies.
TRIBES Global Leaders Search (born@GLL)
GLL Talent Reach PartnerTRINITI Business Law Firm with more than 50 professionals in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia aims to ensure all essential needs of business clients and lead the market by client satisfaction ratings and top-level service. It tops the ratings of Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500, InterContinental Finance, World Lawyers, Corporate INTL Magazine DealMakers and others.
TRINITI Business Law Firm
GLL Legal PartnerMINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS of LITHUANIA has supported the national Global Lithuanian Awards since its foundation in 2012. Since then this cooperation has brought to the attention of Lithuanian society more than 300 stories of global Lithuanians eagerly contributing to the global standing of the country.
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Partner of Global Lithuanian AwardsMINISTRY OF THE ECONOMY AND INNOVATION has supported the program of GLL Business Advisors connecting global professionals with Lithuanian companies looking for contacts and advise in particular markets and sectors.
MINISTRY OF THE ECONOMY AND INNOVATION
Partner of GLL Business AdvisorsINTERACTIO is the time-saving, convenient, consumer friendly platform of remote simultaneous interpretation adopted by largest events in Europe and the USA, enabling remote work of EU organisations.
INTERACTIO
Partner of GLL EventsIGNITIS GROUP is an international energy company and one of the largest energy groups in the Baltic region. The group’s core activities include power and heat production and supply, power and natural gas trading and distribution, and power system maintenance and development. Group companies operate in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland and Finland. Group innovation fund invests in energy startups in the UK, Norway, Sweden, France and Israel.
IGNITIS GROUP
TALENT REACH PARTNEROxylabs enables companies worldwide to gather public online data and is at the forefront of innovation in the field. Their strict ethical standards resulted in hundreds of partnerships with high-profile businesses, many of which are among Fortune500.
Oxylabs
PVcase is a next-generation PV software company serving customers in over 20 countries to design gigawatts of solar plants in over 50 countries in Europe, North and South America, Asia, and Australia.
PVcase
TALENT REACH PARTNERGirteka Logistics is Europe’s leading asset based Transport Company delivering more than 730.000 Full truck loads annually. It grew organically from 1 truck in 1996 to now more than 7.400 trucks and 7.800 trailers operating in Europe, Scandinavia and CIS. With 18.000 professionals, its industry expertise has made it the FTL carrier of choice for the world’s biggest brands. The smooth operations and communication is ensured with our LEAN approach.
GIRTEKA
TALENT REACH PARTNER - LinkedIn ProfileLUMINOR GROUP is the third-largest financial services provider in the Baltic region. It is built on the two leading Nordic banks – Nordea and DNB, with their merger process in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia completed at the beginning of last year. Having gone through a merger marathon that lasted over two years, change now defines the very core of LUMINOR working culture. With its customer base of 1.3 million clients and its team of over 2300 professionals, LUMINOR aims to become a leading financial services provider for Baltic businesses and entrepreneurial people.
LUMINOR GROUP
TALENT REACH PARTNER2000
global Lithuanian professionals
in 49
countries around the world
10+
programs for engagement to contribute to Lithuania
OUR MEMBERS
we would like you to meet
RŪTA LAUKIEN was acknowledged financial professional with broad experience and highly developed skills in origination, advisory, structuring, marketing, execution and team leadership when she has developed an innovative gallery-restaurant concept that balances art, space and design through the prism of social dining and applied it at Liquid Art House, unique in Boston, USA, worldwide. We are happy have her as GLL Business Advisor and Investment Ambassador.
Rūta Laukien
Owner of Liquid Art House in Boston, USAPROFESSOR VICTOR SNIEČKUS has recently founded Snieckus Innovations in order to use the decades of synthetic chemistry experience to assist pharmaceutical and agrochemical companies in tackling the challenges in developing new drugs and crop enhancing agents. His work in the area of synthetic organic chemistry has been recognized with numerous awards, including Global Lithuanian Award. He was recently made a Fellow of the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry for his long-term research accomplishments. He was one of the inspirations for Global Academic Network.
Victor Snieckus
Professor and Researcher of Organic Chemistry, Queens University, Kingston, CanadaRŪTA ŠEPETYS introduces herself as Seeker of Lost Stories. We are very proud that the first story brought to the attention of the US readers was about Lithuania and the tragic years of the World War II now in the process of filming. She was among the first Laureates of Global Lithuanian Awards in 2012 together with Antanas Mockus, Ray Bartkus, Victor Snieckus, Birutė Galdikas and many other prominent LIthuanians.
Rūta Šepetys
Writer, author of three bestsellers, Detroit, USACARLOS LEVENSTEIN is a dynamic, entrepreneurial sales and management strategist in the Technology, AIDC and Printing Industry with a 15+ year record of achievement and demonstrated success driving multimillion-dollar growth while providing award-winning leadership in highly competitive markets. As GLL Business Advisor he is much appreciated by young Lithuanian IT companies as superb professional in the industrial environment, operations, legal system, compliance and start up operations of Brazil.
Carlos Levenstein
VP Sales and Marketing at MaQeo Technologies, Sao Paulo, BrasilANTANAS MOCKUS is a political leader very well-known and highly respected globally. He served as Mayor of Bogotá for two (non-consecutive) terms during which he became known for springing surprising and humorous initiatives upon the city’s inhabitants. In 2010, he ran for President of Columbia, though he was not elected, he takes very active part in building transparent democracy in his country. We are more than inspired by his wisdom and energy.
Antanas Mockus
Philosopher and polititian, Bogota, ColumbiaGINT BAUKUS is the Laureate of Global Lithuanian Awards 2016 for bringing Western Union to Lithuania and initiating shift in the economic development of Lithuania. We treat him as the role model for the program of Investment Ambassadors run in cooperation with Invest Lithuania.
Gint Baukus
VP Global Human Resources, CHRO at Molycorp Inc., Denver, USAALMINAS ŽALDOKAS works as an assistant professor of finance specialising in innovation, corporate finance and governance. He is a co-founder of Lithuanian Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong that helps Lithuanian businesses to foster links with Hong Kong market. He belongs to Economic Research Network organising annual Lithuanian Conferences on Economic Research to promote economic research in Lithuania and integrate Lithuania’s economics community into the global academic environment.
Alminas Žaldokas
Assistant Professor of Finance, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong KongTOMAS NAVARDAUSKAS joined The Israel Lithuania Technology Hub in 2015 and has been building relationships with industry experts across the IT and Life Science sectors, forging strong partnerships between Israeli and Lithuanian companies to create beneficial collaborations and strategic alliances. We are happy to have him as GLL Business Advisor and exceptionally active connector.
Tomas Navardauskas
Country Manager at Aciety, Operations Manager at The Israel Lithuania Technology Hub, IsraelVYTAS PAUKŠTYS has more than 15 years experience in mobile, telco, mobile marketing, telemarketing, direct sales, mobile operator marketing, customer acquisition, mobile payments. AS CEO of Eskimi mobile social network he raised the number of users zero to 10 million in less than 24 months.
Vytas Paukštys
CEO at Eskimi, Nairobi, NigeriaEGLĖ GARRICK had long and successful career of urban developer at the Port Area of Sydney, Australia. Recently, she was elected to the Board of World Lithuanian Community, the umbrella organisation of Lithuanian communities abroad. We are happy to have her as Vilnius Municipality advisor on novelties of urban development.
Eglė Garrick
Director of Finance and Fundraising at World Lithuanian Community, Sydney, AustraliaRAY BARTKUS , conceptual artist, Laureate of Global Lithuanian Awards, playing with visual comprehension of space, color, lights and forms, provoking artistic interaction between the piece of art and the audience. Since 2014, every June he brings internationally renown artists to Marijampolė for forums of mural painting on shabby walls of the town turning it into outstanding place of attraction. This movement is known and followed by the name of MALONNY.
Ray Bartkus
Artist, New York, USAUpcoming events
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