Lauras Bielinis

Lauras Bielinis (born June 30, 1957 in Vilnius) is a Lithuanian political scientist and a professor at Vytautas Magnus University. His research topics include analysis of political text, election technologies, and political communication.

From 1976 to 1981, he studied in Moscow State University and earned a master's degree in philosophy.

From 1981 to 1983, he worked as an assistant in the Department of Social Science in Kaunas Polytechnical Institute. From 1983 to 1986, he entered Moscow State University's Faculty of Philosophy doctoral studies. From 1986 to 1992, he worked as an assistant in the Department of Social Sciences of Vilnius University. In 1991, he founded Politologija journal and was its editor-in-chief until 2006. From 1992 to 1993, he was one of the founders of the Lithuanian Centre Union. From 1994, a lecturer at Vilnius University Institute of International Relations and Political Science, and at Klaipėda University. In 1996, he was awarded a Ph.D. in social science.

During the 2002 Lithuanian presidential election, he was a consultant for Artūras Paulauskas. In 2003, he was the manager of the Belarusian Institute. From 2006 to 2009, adviser to president Valdas Adamkus, and chief of the Internal Politics and Analysis group. From 2012, a professor at Vytautas Magnus University.

He is one of the founding members of the Lithuanian Association of Political Scientists. He established the journal Agora. Politinių komunikacijų studijos journal and is part of its editorial team.