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Alfonsas Eidintas is a Lithuanian historian, diplomat, and writer. He graduated from Vilnius Pedagogical Institute in 1973 and later taught there, serving as head of the Department of General History (1983-1986). He held various roles, including section head at the Lithuanian Institute of History (1986-1993) and was Deputy Director. In 1993-2017 Eidintas served as Lithuania’s Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to the U.S.A., Canada, Israel, Norway and Greece. He also worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and taught at Vilnius University. A professor since 2001, he has written over 30 books and 50 articles on Lithuanian emigration, 20th-century history, Holocaust in Lithuania and diplomacy. He is currently working as Chief expert on Strategic Forecasting Unit of the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania.