Emanuelis Zingeris
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Emanuelis Zingeris MP |
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| Member of the Seimas | |
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In office 1990–2000 |
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Assumed office 2004 |
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| Vice President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe | |
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Assumed office 2009 |
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| Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Seimas | |
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Assumed office 2010 |
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| President of the Parliamentary Forum of the Community of Democracies | |
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Assumed office 2010 |
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| Chairman of the International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania | |
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Assumed office 1998 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 16 July 1957 |
| Political party | Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, European People's Party |
| Spouse(s) | Virginija Zingeris |
| Children | Dovydas and Estera Zingeris |
| Religion | Judaism |
Emanuelis Zingeris (born 16 July 1957 in Kaunas, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian philologist, museum director, politician, signatory of the 1990 Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania, currently serving as a Member of the Seimas (1990–2000 and since 2004), chairman of its foreign affairs committee (since 2010), Vice President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (since 2009) and President of the Parliamentary Forum of the Community of Democracies (since 2010). A Lithuanian Jew, he has been director of the Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum, honorary chairman of Lithuania's Jewish community, and is Chairman of the International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania. He is a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism, that proposed the establishment of the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism.
Zingeris graduated from Vilnius University in 1981 with a degree in philology. Himself being Jewish, he wrote his post-graduate dissertation on the Jewish cultural heritage of Lithuania, a difficult subject at the time. He was a member of the pro-independence Sąjūdis movement and was elected to the Seimas (parliament) in 1990, where he served as chair of both the foreign affairs committee and the human rights committee, and as a member of several interparliamentary relations groups.
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