The Community of Democracies welcomes Mantas Adomėnas as its next Secretary General

The Governing Council of the Community of Democracies (CoD) elected dr. Mantas Adomėnas as the coalition’s next Secretary General, as of September 1, 2024.

Dr. Mantas Adomėnas is a Lithuanian scholar and politician who served in the Lithuanian Parliament (2008-2020). At the conclusion of his third parliamentary term, he was nominated as a Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania (2021-2023). In 2023, he was elected a member of the Council of the European Council on Foreign Relations.

Dr. Adomėnas worked on a range of issues, including support for democracy, foreign affairs, migration policy, national security, culture and education. He served on international election observation missions to Georgia, Ukraine, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

He is currently a Chief Strategic Officer / Senior Research Fellow at the Baltic Institute of Advanced Technology, and Associate Professor at the Department of Classics in Vilnius University.

Dr. Adomėnas earned his master’s degree as a Classicist at Vilnius University and PhD at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University. He publishes essays and scholarly articles on topics ranging from Classics to political philosophy and current affairs, as well as novels.