Petras AUSTREVICIUS Chief Negotiator for the EU Accession

1981-1986	Student of the Vilnius University, Department of Industrial Economics
1986-1991	Institute of Economy, the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Junior Research Fellow
1988-1991	Post-graduate course
1991-1992	Senior Official and later First Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania
1992-1993	Head of the Northern European Division MFA
	October 1993 Charge d Affaires ad interim of the Republic of Lithuania to the Republic of Finland September 2, 1994 - December 20, 1997
	Ambassador of the Republic of Lithuania to the Republic of Finland
	February 1998 Advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania on Foreign Affairs
	May 1998 Director General of the European Committee under the Government of Lithuania
	October 1999 Chancellor of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania
	November 2000 - present Director General of the European Committee under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania
	January 2001- present Chief Negotiator with EU

Co-author of two books on economics and dozen other articles and publications

The current status of the accession negotiations