Finance Minister of the Year, Global and Europe
Gintarė Skaistė, Lithuania
Gintarė Skaistė’s first few months as Lithuania’s finance minister was certainly a baptism of fire. The new government — a tripartite coalition of the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats, the Liberal Movement and the Freedom Party — took office in mid-December 2020 and the finance ministry had to quickly prepare the state budget for 2021, ensuring adequate support for the economy and the society in face of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
