Simonas Kairys
Kairys in 2023
Minister of Culture
Incumbent
Assumed office 11 December 2020
Prime Minister	Ingrida Šimonytė
Preceded by	Mindaugas Kvietkauskas
Deputy Mayor of Kaunas
In office 2015–2019
Kaunas City Councillor
In office 2011–2019
Personal details
Born	(1984-04-19) 19 April 1984 (age 39) Telšiai, Lithuania
Political party	Liberal Movement
Spouse	Deimantė Kairienė
Alma mater	Vytautas Magnus University Mykolas Romeris University

Simonas Kairys (born 19 April 1984) is a Lithuanian politician, former Deputy Mayor of Kaunas and Kaunas City Councillor.

On 7 December 2020, he was approved to be the as Minister of Culture in the Šimonytė Cabinet.^[1]

Biography

He was born and raised in Telšiai, where he graduated from high school in 2003. In 2007 graduated from Vytautas Magnus University with a Bachelor's degree in Political Sciences. In 2011, he obtained a Master's degree in Law at Mykolas Romeris University.

Political career

Since 2008 is a Member of Liberal Movement.

Between 2007 and 2011 he worked as an Assistant of the Deputy Mayor of Kaunas, project manager of the Institute of Liberal Thought.

From 2011 to 2019 he was elected a member of Kaunas City Councillor.^[2]

Since 2015 until 2019 Kairys worked as the Deputy Mayor of Kaunas.^[3]

From 2019 he is Advisor of the Mayor of Kaunas.^[4]