Background
ANDRIKIENE, Laima Liucija was born on January 1, 1958 in Druskininkai, Lithuania. Parents: Marcelinas Galdikas and Ona Galditiene (née Valatkeviciute).
economist politician university professor
ANDRIKIENE, Laima Liucija was born on January 1, 1958 in Druskininkai, Lithuania. Parents: Marcelinas Galdikas and Ona Galditiene (née Valatkeviciute).
Vilnius University, Diploma, economics and cybernetics, 1980, Doctor of Philosophy, economics, 1986. Spoken languages: Lithuanian, English, Russian.
She worked as an engineer, an later as a research fellow, at the Lithuanian Institute for Research of Agricultural Economy. She successfully concluded doctoral studies in 1994. In 1990 Andrikienė was elected to the Supreme Council of Lithuania and was a signatory to the Acting of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.
In 1996, representing Homeland Union, she was elected for another term of the Seimas in Pramonės (17) single-seat constituency in Kaunas.
In December 1996 Andrikienė was appointed the Minister of the Industry and Trade for a short time. Later same month she was appointed a Minister of European Affairs.
In 2001 she joined the Lithuanian Union of the Right and in 2003 rejoined the Homeland Union. In 2004 Andrikienė was elected to the European Parliament for Lithuania.
She was elected from the electoral list of the Homeland Union and sat with the European People"s Party.
She was reelected in 2009.
Roman Catholic
In 1999 they founded a short-lived Popular Homeland Party.
In the elections in 1992, she was elected as the member of the Sixth Seimas through the electoral list of Sąjūdis.
Spouse the late Rimvydas Andrikis, 1980. Children: Sarunas.