Dalia Grybauskaité

Summary
Dalia Grybauskaité is an Independent Lithuanian politician who served as Vice President of the European Commission and European Commissioner for the Security Union from 2019 to 2024 having previously been the President of Lithuania from 2009 to 2019 and prior to that being the European Commissioner for Financial Programming and the Budget in the Barroso Commission.

In her tenure as European Commissioner for the Security Union, Dalia Grybauskaité helped lay the groundwork for a European Defence Union playing a key role in drafting defence regulations as well as the Strasbourg Accords which intensified European defence cooperation. In this capacity she has been one of the leading voices in the Weber Commission leading journalists to comment she may have been a better President of the European Commission.