Ona Juknevičienė

Ona Juknevičienė (born April 28, 1955 in Dusmenėliai near Trakai ) is a Lithuanian politician. Juknevičienė has been a member of the European Parliament since 2004 and a member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe .

In 1958, the Juknevičienė family moved to Vilnius . Juknevičienė finished school there in 1973 and studied economics at Vilnius University . Juknevičienė graduated with a degree in economics in 1981 and obtained a PhD in economics in 1993. Between 1985 and 1990 she was senior lecturer at the Administration Academy and from 1994 to 1995 lecturer in economics at Vilnius University. She then moved to the corporate restructuring agency "Consulta", where she held the position of general director between 1995 and 1998. Subsequently, from 1998 to 2000, Juknevičienė was chief adviser of the technical aid project “Institution building, restructuring and privatization of companies” of the World Bank in Uzbekistan (1998–2000) and from 2001 to 2004 chief adviser of the technical aid project “Restructuring and privatization of companies “The World Bank in Serbia .

Juknevičienė belonged to the Liberal Union from 1997 to 2000 and was a member of the Darbo partija from 2003 . After the Darbo partija had voted in February 2008 for a nuclear power law, which provided for the creation of a “national energy supplier” and, as a result, extremely favorable conditions for the private electricity supplier VST , Juknevičienė resigned from the party. In the European elections in 2009 she ran as the top candidate of the Center Party and helped the splinter party to 3.1% of the valid votes.

Ona Juknevičienė is married to Thierry Bodard for the second time and has two grown daughters, Rūta and Simona.

Web links

• Official website
• Entry for Ona Juknevičienė in the European Parliament 's database of MEPs
• Biography on the homepage of Lietuvos centro partija (lit.)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Result of the 2009 European elections in Lithuania