Valdas Adamkus is remembered in public life for work that changed what came after it.
The record lists Valdas Adamkus as Lithuanian politician, twice President of Lithuania (born 1926).
Valdas Adamkus was born at Kaunas in 1926. His recorded nationality is Lithuania. He was educated at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Illinois Institute of Technology.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
He worked as politician, sprinter and civil engineer.
Political reputations are settled slowly, and rarely by the people who made them.
Recognition followed: Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (2001), Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (2006), Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav (1998) and Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Falcon (1998).
Working from Lithuania shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Achievements
- Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour — 2001
- Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath — 2006
- Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav — 1998
- Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Falcon — 1998
- Educated at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Illinois Institute of Technology
- Worked as politician, sprinter and civil engineer
