Emanuelis Zingeris

Emanuelis Zingeris
Member of the Seimas
Incumbent
Assumed office 15 November 2004
Constituency	Multi-member
In office 25 November 1996 – 17 October 2000
Constituency	Multi-member
In office 25 November 1992 – 24 November 1996
Preceded by	Liudvikas Saulius Razma
Succeeded by	Vytenis Andriukaitis
Constituency	Žirmūnai
Vice President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Incumbent
Assumed office 2009
Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Seimas
Incumbent
Assumed office 2010
President of the Parliamentary Forum of the Community of Democracies
Incumbent
Assumed office 2010
Chairman of the International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania
Incumbent
Assumed office 1998
Personal details
Born	(1957-07-16) 16 July 1957 (age 67) Kaunas, Lithuania
Political party	Homeland Union European People's Party
Spouse	Virginija Zingeris
Children	Dovydas and Estera Zingeris

Emanuelis Zingeris (born 16 July 1957) 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).^[1] 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.