Taurimas VALYS LL.M. MBA ABD
Public Speaker, Consultant, and Director in Vilnius, Lithuania
- Taurimas VALYS is a Minister of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania (the Secretary of the Treasury 🇱🇹🇪🇺) and Governor at the World Bank (IBRD), EBRD, EIB, NIB.
- He is an ex-Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania; also Mr. Valys was a Governor at International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA, Austria), Executive Board member at both Invest Lithuania (national investment promotion agency) and (national) Innovation Agency of the Republic of Lithuania.
- As a Deputy Foreign Minister he was a member of (National) Economic Diplomacy Council and Chairman of Economic Diplomacy Council Task Force (working group) led by MFA (LT). By that time he was also in charge of the following areas:
✔ Economic diplomacy (trade & economic relations - promotion of overall commerce/exports, tourism & foreign investment)
✔ Economic security policy
✔ Lithuania's foreign trade policy
✔ Participation in international economic organizations (UN, WTO, OECD, CERN, ISO, ICAO, WIPO, et al)
✔ Defense industry development initiatives
✔ Implementation of Lithuanian diaspora policy (incl. the development of measures to encourage return to Lithuania and the strengthening of diaspora ties). - Before MFA activities he was a Chief Adviser to the Prime Minister on Economic Diplomacy and Efficiency of State-Owned Enterprises; in parallel, he held the following positions while working at the office of Lithuanian Prime Minister:
- ✔ Chairman of the State Image Strategic Council;
✔ Member of the National Economic Diplomacy Council (managed by the Government Office), Member of the Economic Diplomacy Action Group (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), - shaping national economic strategies; - From his previous background during the last 15+ years, Mr. Valys is a professional ❖ Investment Lawyer, ❖ Banker, ❖ Investor Relations Executive (target institutional investors 2 - 50 MLN EUR ticket size) ❖ Financial Engineer, ❖ International Entrepreneur (multiple startups co-founder & developer) ❖ C-level Executive (15+ years of experience in managing businesses, specific units); ❖ he gained substantial (global) credentials as a Strategic Adviser (Big 4 level; supervising & leading financial projects and teams).
- Proactive networker ||| 33.000+ followers on WEB2 (#ThinkingBIG approach)
- Taurimas Valys is an ex-Vice President of 3 chambers of commerce (Vilnius Chamber of Commerce, Industry, and Crafts, the Turkish-Lithuanian Chamber of Commerce, and the French-Lithuanian Chamber of Commerce.
- He was previously officially elected as a Vilnius City Council member, supervising subsidiary municipal companies (supervising and managing a 1,3 billion+ EUR annual budget).
- With over 15 years of experience as an International Team Leader, Taurimas has a global perspective and has successfully implemented strategic investment, business development, public financial engineering, international cooperation, and commercial projects across 6 continents.
- Taurimas is also a co-founder of an EU mutual bank (a credit union providing overall banking services (incl. deposits, credits, e-banking, debit/credit cards, etc), www.unija.lt), regulated by the branch of the ECB (85M+ EUR portfolio; 100M+ EUR of overall long-term assets; annual turnover around half a BILLION EUR).
- As a part-time associate professor at Vilnius University (founded in 1579), he has lectured at more than 10 European and American universities. His expertise and leadership have earned him a reputation as a trusted advisor in the global business community.
- Proven track record in ✓ FINANCIAL (banking, licensed management of investment funds) ✓ REAL ESTATE ✓ INFRASTRUCTURE ✓ UTILITIES (water, waste management) ✓ ENERGY ✓ WHOLESALE TRADING ✓ WEB3 & AI (incl. overall BLOCKCHAIN solutions, METAVERSE, etc) ✓ FINtech ✓ EDtech ✓ GOVtech ✓ 3D ✓ machinery, etc.