Remigijus Šimašius has been with LFMI since 1995. In May 2006 he was appointed LFMI's president. Since May 2004 he has lead the LFMI‘s analytical team as vice president. Until then he worked as a legal expert and a senior policy analyst.

 

Remigijus Šimašius's areas of expertise are energy, competition and privatization policy, educational reform and the regulation of the non-governmental sector. He also analyses general economic issues in Lithuania and the European Union.

 

Remigijus received lawyer‘s qualifications at Vilnius University. He studied at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary and at the Mises Institute in Alabama. He did an internship with the Heritage Foundation in Washington D.C. In 2002 he was awarded a PhD from the Law University of Lithuania for a thesis on legal pluralism in which he combined, as in his other writings, economic, legal and sociological knowledge.

 

As an expert on the Austrian School and legal theory, he has gained recognition in Lithuania and overseas.

 

Having profound knowledge of the operational principles of NGOs, Remigijus participated in creating the legal foundations for the non-governmental sector. From 1996 until 2004 he cooperated with the NGO Information and Support Centre, provided consultancy for NGOs and analysed their legal basis. Remigijus has published a book “Non-Governmental Organizations: Lithuanian Regulation and Western Experience“ (1999). In 2006 a new book on non-governmental organizations of Remigijus was released. Owing to Remigijus‘ consistent efforts, a number of regulatory restrictions on non-governmental organizations have been lifted in recent years.

 

Remigijus Šimašius is an expert on competition economics and law. His analysis and arguments contributed significantly to the adoption of a competition law in Lithuania which became the first competition law in the world to limit the powers of state and municipal authorities in restricting competition.

 

Remigijus Šimašius was a presence in creating a conceptual framework for Lithuania‘s law-making, defining provisions of Lithuania‘s pension reform and promoting free market ideas in other economic policy areas. Remigijus edited LFMI‘s handbooks for parliament “Knyga 2000-2004 metų Seimo nariams ir rinkėjams“ and “Knyga 2004-2008 metų Seimo nariams ir rinkėjams.“

 

Remigijus Šimašius is an author of more than fifty articles on various economic policy issues in the Lithuanian press. For the past two years he has provided weekly commentary on the Lithuanian radio.

 

Remigijus Šimašius is a chairperson of the editorial board of an applied legal journal “Teisės problemos“ and an author of articles on law theory. Remigijus teaches at Mykolas Romeris University and Vilnius University, he is member of the International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. In 2000 and 2002 he was elected to the Vilnius City Council as a member of the Lithuanian Liberal Union and resigned from this post upon becoming head of LFMI. From 1995 until October 2005 Remigijus was a member of the Lithuanian Liberal Union. At present he serves on the board of the Transparency International Lithuanian Chapter and is also a member of the Property and Freedom Society, uniting the most prominent intellectuals of the free market thought from around the globe.