GLL Think & Do Tank

Daiva Žeimytė – Bilienė | Lithuania | Journalist and civic activist with a strong focus on public policy, accountability, public narratives anad government policies.

Vaida Lukošiūtė | UK |A competent and facilitative manager with fifteen years of experience in operations, donor compliance, and project management. Vaida has vast experience working in the humanitarian sector and emergency responses, seeing the big picture, delivering quality projects, and ensuring conformity with policies and procedures.

Lina Vosyliūtė |Belgium | Researcher within the Rights and Security program at CEPS – Brussels-based think-tank leading EU-level policy debates. Lina’s research focuses on EU’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice – namely, migration and asylum policies; border controls; the criminalization of humanitarianism; migrant smuggling and other organized crime issues, including anti-terrorism; the protection of minorities across the EU.

Kristina Sutkaitytė |Switzerland |Project and program manager, with expertise in EU development cooperation and humanitarian policies as well as the common security and defense policy domain.

Violeta Mooney |Ireland |Psychologist who has been working with Migrants, Refugees, and Asylum seekers in Ireland for the last 15 years. Currently serving as a board member of the Cairde organization which specializes in providing services to marginalized communities. 

Jelena Solovjova |UK |Legal and political analyst, focusing on the Middle East and North Africa, security, international law, and organized crime.

Mantė Makauskaitė |Lithuania |Development expert with anthropological mindset and interdisciplinary approach to development cooperation field, which has been tested while working at the global ICT consultancy company, public sector, and non-profit world.

Kristijanas Kaminskis | Lithuania |Researcher and consultant operating within the ICT4D field and aiming to stimulate meaningful cooperation between Lithuania and African countries.

Aušra Kukelkaitė | Lithuania | Managing Director of Global Lithuanian Leaders network, with extended experience in the field of communications and diaspora matters.

Gabrielė Urbonaitytė| Lithuania |Community Manager at a Global Lithuanian Leaders, with knowledge in international law and politics, pooling the global talent of the diaspora and channeling it towards the benefit of Lithuania and its economy.

Dr. RIMVYDAS BALTADUONIS | USA | Visiting Senior Research Scholar at Columbia’s Center on Global Energy Policy. He is also an Associate Professor in the Economics Department at Gettysburg College and a Co-Director of Gettysburg Lab for Experimental Economics.  He also leads the Board of Economic Cooperation within the World Lithuanian Community as well as Co-Chairs the joint Parliamentary Commission for the affairs of Lithuanians globally.

SKAIDRA PUODŽIŪNAS | Canada | In-house story-teller, cheer-leader, connector at Ontario Digital Services with interest and experience in communication strategies

DOMINYKAS MILAŠIUS | UK | Strategy and geopolitical risk advisor with keen interest in innovative citizen engagement solutions.

AUŠRA KUKELKAITĖ | Vilnius | Managing Director of Global Lithuanian Leaders network, with extended experience in the field of communications and diaspora matters.

SIGITA JURKYNAITĖ | Netherlands | Leading the Security Work Package of the GN4-3 project at GEANT, aiming to keep the Research and Education network safe and secure and supporting the member organisations all over Europe with up-to-date security tools, practices and training. She has been a very active leader of Lithuanian Community in the Netherlands.

AURELIJA ORLOVA | Lithuania and Italy | Responsible for maintaining strong, long-lasting customer relationships at UAB Insoft | Experienced in E-Government projects (e.g. SIRIP) delivering centralised solutions for Lithuania such as e-service delivering, e-identification, e-service design tools, e-document management

POVILAS LESKAUSKAS| UK | Security Specialist at International SOS and Control Risk | global risk professional with a crisis and security management degree from Leiden University and experience in analytical and operational roles, focused on security challenges faced by actors operating in the EMEA region

MONIKA BIČKAUSKAITĖ  | France | Program Assistant at German Marshall Fund of the United States with research interests in defence and security, Trans-Atlantic relations, NATO, U.S. foreign policy, Eastern Flank, the Baltic States, Russia, Belarus, cybersecurity

VYTENIS BENETIS| Israel | Military analyst with academic background of engineering sciences extensively involved in project management at various levels, managed complex human, technical and organizational interactions.

JŪRATĖ BIRBILAITĖ | Lithuania |Data Analytic, Business Intelligence, Evidence Based Policy Making at STRATA with progressive hands-on experience in the field of Analytics, having proficiency in statistical modelling tools and techniques with proven problem-solving skills

DOMINYKAS MILAŠIUS | UK | Strategy and geopolitical risk advisor with keen interest in innovative citizen engagement solutions.

AUŠRA KUKELKAITĖ | Lithuania | Director at GLL with journalism background with half of her career in PR agencies managing a department of private business clients

Paulius Yamin | Colombia | Creator, consultant, manager and researcher with over 8 years of international experience working on behavioural change initiatives in public, private, social and international cooperation organizations.

Marius Čižiūnas| UK | Software Engineer at STRYDE, leadership and coaching enthusiast, organiser of leadership camp for teenagers in Lithuania

Elena Archipovaitė | Lithuania | Urban development practitioner with twelve-year experience in architecture and urban development planning practice. Recent deployment with NRC/NORCAP was to Lebanon where she worked as City strategies coordinator with UN-Habitat.

Dr. Vitalija Danivska | Finland | Postdoctoral researcher in real estate management with interest workplace management, business models driven by belief  in collaboration and work for a better future of our working and living.

LINA DUSEVIČIENĖ | Lithuania | Project Manager at GLL with experience in projects of suicide prevention and global community building