Giedrimas Jeglinskas is the Chairman of the Committee on National Security and Defense at the Lithuanian Parliament where he leads the oversight and legislation for defense, intelligence and national security institutions.

Prior to the Parliament, Mr. Jeglinskas was a nonresident senior fellow at the Transatlantic Security Initiative in the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, a member of the International Task Force on Ukraine Security and Euro-Atlantic Integration, a member of the Alphen. Group, and a senior adviser to Accenture’s EU Data Lab in Brussels. He also was a candidate at the 2024 Presidential election in Lithuania.

Mr. Jeglinskas previously served as the Assistant Secretary General for executive management at NATO where he was the Secretary General’s primary advisor on NATO-wide management issues. Mr. Jeglinskas led the four hundred-strong executive management division, responsible for all enabling functions of NATO including human resources, infrastructure, information technology, and finance. He served as chair of the management board at the NATO Pension Fund, a 700 million-euro AUM pension plan. Mr. Jeglinskas was also an originator of NATO Innovation Fund, a EUR1bn multi-sovereign venture capital fund.

From 2017 to 2019, Mr. Jeglinskas served as a Deputy Defense Minister of Lithuania in charge of capability development, acquisition, logistics, infrastructure development, defense industry, and technology partnerships.

From 2010 to 2017, Mr. Jeglinskas worked as vice president in corporate finance and capital markets at Citigroup across New York, Tokyo, Singapore, Sydney, and Warsaw. A former Lithuanian Army officer, Mr. Jeglinskas served as an infantry platoon commander and as a senior intelligence officer at the Ministry of National Defense.

Mr. Jeglinskas graduated from the US Military Academy at West Point with a BSc in political science and computer engineering. He holds an MA in national security studies from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service and an MBA in strategy and finance from the Columbia Business School.