1979-1990 he studied at the 41st Secondary School in Vilnius, 1990-1996 he studied classical philology at the Faculty of Philology of Vilnius University, 1996-2000 he was a PhD student in philosophy at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), where he defended his doctoral dissertation "Nature in Flux: Plato's Reception of Presocratic Cosmological Theories".

1999-2002 Member of the Board of the Institute for Democratic Politics, 2000-2006 Full Member and Lecturer at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University. 2000-2004 Lecturer in the Department of Classics, University of Cambridge. 2002 Member of the Founding Council of the Institute for Democratic Politics. 2004-2006 Director of International Programmes at the Civil Society Institute. 2004-2008 Associate Professor, Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University. 2006-2009 President of the Institute for Democratic Policy.

2006-2008 Adviser to Andrius Kubilius, Vice President of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania. 2006-2007 Member of the Working Group on the Principles of Higher Education Reform set up by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania. 1999-2003 President of the Cambridge University Catholic Alumni and Faculty Association, 2002-2004 Member of the Council of the Cambridge University Catholic Association, 2003-2004 Member of the Board of Overseers of Cambridge University. "Member of the European Ideas Network.