Algirdas Šemeta
| Algirdas Šemeta | |
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| European Commissioner for Taxation and Customs Union, Audit and Anti-Fraud | |
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In office 9 February 2010 – 1 November 2014 |
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| President | José Manuel Barroso |
| Preceded by |
László Kovács (Taxation and Customs Union) Siim Kallas (Administrative Affairs, Audit and Anti-Fraud) |
| Succeeded by | Pierre Moscovici ( Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs) |
| European Commissioner for Financial Programming and the Budget | |
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In office 1 July 2009 – 9 February 2010 |
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| President | José Manuel Barroso |
| Preceded by | Dalia Grybauskaitė |
| Succeeded by | Janusz Lewandowski |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
23 April 1962 Vilnius, Soviet Union (now Lithuania) |
| Political party | Homeland Union |
| Alma mater | Vilnius University |
Algirdas Gediminas Šemeta (born 23 April 1962) is a Lithuanian economist and politician.
A native of Vilnius, Algirdas Šemeta graduated in 1985 from Vilnius University's Faculty of Economic Cybernetics and Finance with a degree as economist-mathematician. His previous position has been as Lithuania's Finance Minister, which he fulfilled from December 2008 to June 2009, having already served in the post a decade earlier, from February 1997 to June 1999. Šemeta has minimal business experience in the private sector, his career to date has been concentrated in public office as a civil servant.
He was European Commissioner for Taxation and Customs Union, Audit and Anti-Fraud from July 2009 till November 2014. Following his Commission nomination by center-right Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius, Šemeta has affiliated himself with the European People's Party (EPP). Since December 2014 Šemeta is Business Ombudsman in Ukraine.
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