Reinoldijus Šarkinas has been Chairman of the Bank of Lithuania

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 since 1996. Šarkinas graduated studies at the Economics Faculty of Vilnius University

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 in 1968. Between 1980 and 1982 he served as Financial Adviser to the Ministry of Education in Cuba

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and for several years was Deputy Minister of Finance, charged with budget management. Previously, he was briefly Minister of Finance.