Ina Marčiulionytė

Ina Marčiulionytė (born 1963) is the Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of the Republic of Lithuania to UNESCO at the headquarters in Paris and has served in that post since 2003.In 2009, she was jointly nominated by Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia as a candidate to the post of UNESCO Director-General.In 1988 she joined Sąjūdis, the Lithuanian Reform Movement that led to regaining the independence of Lithuania in 1990.As a member of Sajūdis, Ms. Marčiulionytė actively sought to revive the use of the Lithuanian language and to protect the cultural heritage suppressed during the Soviet period.Under her leadership, the Open Society House, responsible for cultural and educational programs, became a well-established meeting place for intellectuals, educators, journalists and artists from all over Lithuania, as well as their counterparts from Eastern and Central Europe.
LithuaniaUNESCOLithuanian Ambassador in BeijingEstoniaLatviaWorld Heritage CommitteeWorld HeritageMinistry of Culture of the Republic of LithuaniaVilnius UniversitySąjūdisOpen SocietyGeorge SorosOrder of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas