About us

Urtė Pociūtė is the EESC’s administrator – public procurement specialist. She graduated from the Mykolas Romeris University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Law. Currently, she is studying for a Master’s Degree in Criminal Law at Vilnius University. Urtė joined the Eastern Europe Studies Centre in June 2020. She is tasked with organizing public procurements, drafting contracts, searching for vendors. In addition, she also consults employees in matters of effective public procurement. Furthermore, her responsibilities include the functions of an administrator. She provides the necessary work supplies, equipment, and space to ensure that work is performed appropriately.

Adam Roževič is a Project Assistant at the EESC and also an active member of the Polish Discussion Club. Adam actively takes part in/organises various events and discussions promoting and encouraging dialogue, voicing the issues of ethnic minorities to governmental and non-governmental organisations. Furthermore, he is one of the organisers of the Young Political Scientist School, which teaches young people about fair elections, promotes the freedom of speech and equality, thus strengthening fair democratic processes in Lithuania. At the EESC, Adam contributes to various studies, writing policy papers and helping organise high-level events.

Beatričė graduated from Vilnius University Institute of International Relations and Political Science. She is currently continuing Master’s studies in Politics and Media Programme; is interested in socio-urban and cultural phenomena, in strengthening civil society and human rights issues. She has been working in the EESC since spring 2020 as a project assistant – she contributes to the implementation of projects and is responsible for events, creative solutions.

J. Vedrickas holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Politics from Aberystwyth University (UK) and a Master’s degree in East Asia Region Studies from Vytautas Magnus University and started working at the EESC in 2019. Jurgis is most interested in security policy, particularly questions relating to the East Asia region, cyber and information security matters. He is also the managing editor of The Lithuania Tribune news portal and has participated in various Model United Nations conferences in both Lithuania and abroad.

Justinas Kulys has been working at the EESC since the year 2019. He is currently studying at Vilnius University’s Institute of International Relations and Political Science. J. Kulys is actively engaged with and researches the history and politics of Eastern Europe and the Western Balkan states, maintains a keen interest in military affairs, as well as questions of energy and cyber security, political philosophy and political ideas. J. Kulys has contributed to the organisation of a number of high-level events and conferences, national and international project implementation and is a co-author of several academic studies.

Andrius Prochorenko has been working at the EESC since the year 2017. He is a graduate of the Vilnius University’s Institute of International Relations and Political Science, holds a Masters degree in Public Policy Analysis. Andrius is interested in the political economy and is responsible for the implementation of international projects related to hybrid threats, information warfare, and the development of Eastern Partnership countries, as well as the drafting of project applications and reports. He also contributes to the organizing of high-level political events and conferences, the implementation of other national and international projects, he is also a co-author of academic studies and is fluent in English and Russian.

Analyst for the Delfi news poral (from 2008), TV3 political talk show host (from 2019). Headed the national broadcaster’s online news portal (holding the position of Editor in Chief from 2012 to 2019). Previously the Editor in Chief for the magazine IQ / Economist, Deputy Editor in Chief for the magazine Veidas, Editor in Chief for the news portal Alfa.lt, politics section chief at the ELTA news agency. Holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from Vilnius University. Areas of academic interest – political philosophy, history of ideas, political communication. Lectured on political science and political communication at Mykolas Romeris University and Vilnius University. Is the author of a dozen academic texts on political philosophy and political communications questions. Journalistic areas of interest – political life, information space, socio-cultural event analysis.

L. Kojala is Director of Eastern Europe studies center since July 2016. He was also a Fulbright Fellow at Davis Center, Harvard University (2017-2018), where he continues to contribute as an Associate at the Negotiation Task Force. Since 2020, he is also a Baltic Sea Fellow at Foreign Policy Research Institute. L. Kojala is also a columnist and a regular political commentator at Lithuanian TV and radio, as well as international outlets (contributions to CNN, European public broadcasters and others).

L. Kojala is teaching at International Relations and Political Science Institute, Vilnius University. His research interests include foreign affairs, foreign relations of Russia and the United States of America, European integration, security and NATO studies, information security. His book on Lithuania’s accession to the European Union and current security challenges of Europe was among top-selling books in Lithuania in 2019. In 2019 and 2020, he was respectively voted third and fourth most influential Lithuanian public figure in a poll by a national media outlet DELFI.

Policy Analyst, Policy Analysis and Research Division

Prior to EESC, Dovilė Šukytė served as a Research Fellow in Washington, DC based think-tank Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Šukytė scholarly interests include the processes of democratization in Central and Eastern European states and the Caucasus, also the European integration of the Western Balkans.

Policy Analyst, Policy Analysis and Research Division (on leave)

V. Keršanskas works at EESC since 2013, he is also an associate of Lithuanian national radio LRT. Prior to EESC V. Keršanskas worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, he was also a foreign policy observer at the weekly journal “Veidas”. V. Keršanskas holds BA and MA from IIRPS VU. His scholarly interests include foreign and security policy of Lithuania and Eastern Europe, information wars and propaganda, the development and European integration of the Eastern Partnership countries, domestic and foreign policy of Russia.