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Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen

PEP · Politician · Close Associate

Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Viktorija Cmilyte-Nielsen · Viktorija Čmilytė · Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen · Viktorija Čmilīte · Βικτόρια Σμίλιτε · 11 more...				[sources]
Alias	Victoria Cmilyte · Viktorija Cmilyte · Viktorija Cmilyte Nielsen · Viktorija Čmilytė · Viktorija Čmilytė Nielsen · 18 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	ヴィクトリア・チミリテ＝ニールセン				[sources]
Birth date	1983-08-06				[sources]
Place of birth	Šiauliai				[sources]
Gender	female				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Lithuania				[sources]
Biography	Date of birth: 6 August 1983 Place of birth: Šiauliai, Lithuania Education 2007 Graduation from the University of Latvia; Diploma in English Philology Work experience 2001–2015 Professional chess player, chess grandmaster, long-time member of the national chess team of Lithuania 2011 Winner of the European Individual Women Chess Championship 2006 Prize winner of the Women’s World Championship Knockout Tournament 2000 and 2004 Winner of the World Chess Olympiads Political career 2020–2024 Speaker of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania 2016–2020 Member of the 12th Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania 2018–2020 Chair of the Liberals Movement Political Group 2019 Opposition Leader Since 21/09/2019 Chair of the Liberals Movement of the Republic of Lithuania Since 2015 Member of the Liberals Movement of the Republic of Lithuania 2011–֪2020 Member of the 11th Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania Awards 1996 Fifth Class Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas 2011 Cross of Officer of the Order for Merits to Lithuania 2011 Honorary Citizen of Šiauliai City Languages Lithuanian (native), English, Russian, Spanish Hobbies Books, travelling, sports Publication Autobiographical book Tarp juoda ir balta (Between Black and White) (2018) Family Married with four sons				[sources]
Citizenship	Lithuania · Soviet Union				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	Viktorija				[sources]
Last name	Nielsen · Čmilytė · Čmilytė-Nielsen				[sources]
Political association	Liberal Movement				[sources]
Website	twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q270330				[sources]
Wikipedia Article	en.wikipedia.org				[sources]
Position	Member of the Seimas (2012-2016) · Member of the Seimas (2016-2020) · Member of the Seimas (2020-2024) · Member of the Seimas (2024-) · Seimas (member, 2012-2016)				[sources]
Education	Didžvaris Gymnasium (-2000) · University of Latvia (-2007)				[sources]
Source link	pinreg.vtek.lt · www.lrs.lt				[sources]
Last change	2026-04-24	Last processed	2026-04-27	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Lithuanian chess player and politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Alexei Shirov Close Associate	spouse	2001	2007

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Seimas	2020-11-13	2024-11-14

Relatives
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
Peter Heine Nielsen Close Associate	spouse	2013	-
PETER HEINE NIELSEN PEP

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories357,539

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Lithuania Members of the Seimas142

Current and recent members of the Seimas, Lithuania's unicameral parliament

Lithuania · Seimas

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,464

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Lithuania PEPs from the register of private interests67,719

Lithuanian PEPs based on official declarations of personal interests.

Lithuania · VTEK

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons290,346

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Wikidata343,869

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,445

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: lt-pinreg-4abf3ece98c47226307aab9fb594ae50be487955 · evpo-81934711-0708-431c-b2dd-23659aadba15 · lt-pinreg-f79deee13f974a21d5344efb3654f5837957b1f9 · lt-seimas-viktorija-cmilyte-nielsen

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