Aistė Gedvilienė

Aistė Gedvilienė was born on 17 September 1985 in Kaunas, Lithuania.

There is no public indication of significant family wealth or business interests connected to Aistė Gedvilienė. None of her immediate family members are known to have notable political or economic influence, and her political career has not involved any familial ties to major enterprises.

She obtained a Master’s degree in Business Management from Vytautas Magnus University in 2022.

She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Law from Mykolas Romeris University, graduating in 2008.

In 2003–2004, she studied at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Kaunas University of Technology.

She completed her secondary education at Kaunas Milikonių Secondary School in 2003.

From 2014 to 2015, she served as an adviser to Member of European Parliament Gabrielius Landsbergis.

In 2012–2013, she worked as a secretary-assistant to a Member of the Seimas.

She was an assistant to the Minister of Social Security and Labour from 2010 to 2012.

From 2008 to 2010, she was a chief specialist in the Kaunas District Municipality Administration (Urban Planning Division in 2008–2009 and Legal Division in 2009–2010).

She is a member of the 14th Seimas (2024–2028 term), having entered parliament again in 2024.

She served as a member of the 13th Seimas, which sat from 2020 to 2024.

Since entering parliament in 2019, she has been a member of the Homeland Union’s parliamentary group (TS-LKD faction) in the Seimas.

She became a Member of the Seimas on 9 July 2019, joining the parliament during its 12th term (2016–2020).

She was the Executive Secretary of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (and a Presidium member) during 2017–2019.

She served as Deputy Chair of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats from 2015 to 2017.

She held the position of Deputy Executive Secretary of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats in 2013–2014.

She led the TS-LKD Youth Community in Kaunas from 2012 to 2014.

She joined the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) in 2008 and has been a member of its Council since 2012.

In the current (14th) Seimas, she holds the position of Deputy Chair of the Environment Protection Committee (since November 2024).

She served as Chair of the Seimas Committee on Environment Protection during the 2020–2024 parliamentary term.

Upon joining the Seimas in 2019, she became a member of the parliament’s Environment Protection Committee.

She also served as a member of the Seimas Anti-Corruption Commission from late 2019 until the end of the 2016–2020 term.

In the 2024 parliamentary elections, Gedvilienė did not win re-election in her Fabijoniškių single-member district, but she returned to the Seimas via the TS-LKD’s national list of candidates. The Homeland Union earned 17 mandates in the multi-member constituency with 17.96% of the vote, securing Gedvilienė a seat during the 14th Seimas (2024–2028).

She was re-elected to the Seimas in 2024, again gaining her mandate through the TS-LKD’s electoral list.

In the 2020 Seimas elections, Gedvilienė won the Fabijoniškių single-member constituency in Vilnius, securing her mandate by defeating her opponent in the runoff and becoming the district’s representative in the 13th Seimas.

In the 2020 Seimas elections, Gedvilienė ran in the Fabijoniškių single-member constituency of Vilnius and led the first round with 5,405 votes (31.60% of valid ballots). She proceeded to win the seat in the runoff against Artūras Žukauskas, thereby becoming the Fabijoniškių representative in the 13th Seimas.

In the 2020 parliamentary elections, she was elected to the Seimas as a TS-LKD candidate via the national party list.

She entered the 12th Seimas in July 2019 by taking a seat through the TS-LKD party list (mid-term replacement).

In the 2016 parliamentary elections, Gedvilienė ran as a TS-LKD candidate on the party’s national list but did not win a seat; she only entered the Seimas in July 2019 as a mid-term replacement when a TS-LKD member vacated their mandate.

Gedvilienė’s career has been entirely in public service and political roles, with no involvement in private business. Her official biography lists only public-sector positions and party offices, and she has not declared any corporate directorships, shareholdings or business income in her financial disclosures.

As Chair of the Seimas Environment Protection Committee (in the 2020–2024 term), Gedvilienė earned a higher salary than rank-and-file MPs – about €2,875 gross per month (approximately €1,800 after taxes), compared to the standard MP base salary of ~€2,570 gross.

Gedvilienė’s official asset and income declarations show her personal wealth to be moderate. She has not declared any large business holdings or significant liabilities – her assets mainly comprise typical personal property and savings, with nothing out of the ordinary reported.

No unexplained spikes or drops in Gedvilienė’s wealth have been noted over the past decade. Unlike some officials who have revised their wealth figures by large amounts, Gedvilienė’s declared assets have remained consistent with her income, and no media reports have flagged irregularities in her finances.

She is a member of the steering group of “Astravui ne” (meaning “No to Astravyets”), a civic initiative opposing the Astravyets nuclear power plant project in Belarus.

She was a coordinator of the public patriotic campaign “Neužmirštuolė” (Forget-me-not) which commemorates historical events.

She is also a member of the National Lithuanian Students’ Corporation “Neo-Lithuania,” which is a student association.

In June 2021, the Seimas Ethics and Procedures Commission concluded that Aistė Gedvilienė did not violate any statutory requirements or the political ethics code when drafting amendments to fishing and environment laws in consultation with ministry officials. The commission found no private interest conflict in her legislative work, though it recommended that MPs disclose any external contributors in explanatory notes for transparency.

In June 2025, she publicly criticized proposals to extend fur farming operations, arguing that mass breeding and killing of animals for profit is incompatible with moral and ethical principles.

In April 2024, she introduced amendments to the Administrative Offenses Code to issue a warning instead of a fine for a first-time vehicle emission violation, except in cases of tampered emission control systems.

She spearheaded a 2024 proposal to ban keeping dogs constantly chained, registering an amendment to the Animal Welfare and Protection Law that would treat continuous tethering as animal cruelty.

On 8 March 2024, she requested the Prosecutor General’s Office to investigate a long-running illegal waste dumping scheme, following a 15min.lt journalistic investigation exposing the environmental violations.

In late September 2023, after a mass fish die-off occurred in the Pilvė–Vabalkšnė reservoir (Kazlų Rūda municipality), she raised the issue with environmental authorities – urging a thorough investigation and response to the incident.

As Environment Committee chair in July 2021, she formally asked the head of the State Forest Enterprise (VMU) to address allegations of corruption in state timber sales, following an investigative report.

In April 2021, as Chair of the Environment Committee, she and several colleagues proposed to ban commercial fishing in the Curonian Lagoon and all inland waters of Lithuania in order to protect fish stocks and promote sustainable use of resources.

Later that year, the Seimas approved legislation to phase out commercial fishing in the Curonian Lagoon. Gedvilienė, as Environment Committee head, was a prominent supporter of this measure, framing it as necessary for protecting the lagoon’s fishery resources.

In February 2020, she introduced amendments to the Administrative Offenses Code to allow confiscating the vehicles and equipment used to dump waste in forests, thereby strengthening penalties for environmental littering.

In early 2020, amid a scandal over a bison being shot in a hunt, she accused Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis’s office of concealing the participants of the controversial hunt, suggesting the PM’s team was covering it up despite promises of transparency.