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Ambassador

Ambassador

 

Ambassador Mindaugas Rukštelė

Date of birth

27 November 1970

Place of birth

Vilnius, Lithuania

Education

 

Special European Studies, Vienna School of International Studies

 

Vilnius Gediminas Technical University

Work experience

2023-Present

Ambassador of the Republic of Lithuania to Hungary

2021-2023

Director, Personnel Management and Secondment Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania

2019-2021

Deputy Director, Personnel Management and Secondment Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania

2015-2019

Minister Counsellor, Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in the Republic of Austria

2012-2015

Head of the International Missions and Conflicts Prevention Division, Transatlantic Cooperation and Security Policy Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania

2009-2012

Minister Counsellor, Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in the Republic of Austria

2006-2009

Head of the Policy Planning Division, Foreign Policy Analysis and Planning Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania

2003-2006

Counsellor, Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in the Republic of Austria

2001-2003

Deputy Director of the State and Diplomatic Protocol and Head of the President’s Protocol Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania

1999-2001

Head of the Diplomatic Corps Division, State and Diplomatic Protocol, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania

1996-1999

First Secretary, Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in the Republic of Latvia

1995-1996

Deputy Director of the State and Diplomatic Protocol and Head of the Prime Minister’s Protocol Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania

1993-1995

Third, Second and First Secretary, Prime Minister’s Protocol Division, State and Diplomatic Protocol, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania

Miscellaneous

Cross of the Knight, Order for Merits to Lithuania

Cross of the Officer, French Légion d’honneur

Languages

English, German, Russian

Marital status

Married, has a son