Renaldas Gudauskas

Prof. Renaldas Gudauskas received his graduate diploma in Library and Information Sciences at Vilnius University. In Saint Petersburg State Institute of Culture he defended his doctoral dissertation in Social Sciences. In 1996–1998, Prof. Renaldas Gudauskas was Advisor for Information and Communication to the President of Lithuania; in 1998–2000, Vice-Minister for information and informatics at the Ministry of Public Administration; in 2001–2005, Advisor to Prime Minister of Lithuania for science, education and information society development. 

In 2010, Prof. Renaldas Gudauskas became Director General of the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, In 2012, he was member of the Management Committee of The European Library; in 2012–2018, President of the Bibliotheca Baltica Association; in 2003–2007, Director of UNESCO International Centre of Knowledge Economy and Managment of Vilnius University.

In 2001-2006 a member of the European Union Information Society Technology Committee (the Head of the Lithuanian delegation); in 2009–2013, an expert at the European Science Foundation; in 2021–2024, a member of the Executive Committee of the UNESCO Associate International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH). Since 2007, he has been an adjunct professor at the University of Information and Communication in South Korea; since 2012, a member of the Board of the Association of Certified Knowledge Management Professionals KMPro (USA). Currently Prof. R. Gudauskas is a board member of the association ”Bibliotheca Baltica” and Member of Lithuanian National Radio and Television council (since 2022). He is a member of the Lithuanian National Commission for UNESCO.

Prof. Renaldas Gudauskas has been awarded the Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania in recognition of the merits to the Republic of Lithuania and for promoting Lithuania internationally.

Dr. Renaldas Gudauskas於維爾紐斯大學聖彼得堡文化學院通過社會科學博士論文口試，取得圖書館和資訊科技的博士學位。1998年擔任立陶宛總統的資訊和通訊顧問及公共行政部資訊及資訊學副部長；2001年至2005 年改任立陶宛總統科學、教育和資訊社會發展顧問。

自2010年擔任立陶宛國家圖書館館長迄今；2012年起擔任歐洲圖書館管理委員會主席暨波羅的海圖書館協會主席(迄2018年)；立陶宛聯合國教科文組織全國委員會成員暨國際哲學與人文科學聯合理事會執行委員(2021年至2024年)，其推廣立陶宛學術成果之功績獲頒立陶宛功績騎士十字勳章。