Leonidas Donskis President

Leonidas Donskis, Ph.D., (born August 13, 1962) is a former (2009-2014) Member of the European Parliament (MEP), a philosopher, political theorist, historian of ideas, social analyst, and political commentator, currently Vice-President for research at ISM University of Management and Economics.As a public figure in Lithuania, he acted as a defender of human rights and civil liberties. In 2004, Donskis has been awarded by the European Commission the title of the Ambassador for Tolerance and Diversity in Lithuania. A center-right politician, he has always been opposed to all extreme or exclusionary attitudes and forms of violent politics, and, instead, has been leaning to liberalism with its advocacy of individual reason and conscience, ability to coexist with democratic programs of other non-exclusive ideologies, and moderation.