Rimantas Dumčius, Partner  

Rimantas worked with public policy assignments since 1998 – first as a civil servant and later as policy researcher and public management consultant. He led PPMI’s applied research and policy evaluation teams since 2001 focusing mostly on education, employment and social policies. Rimantas acquired a significant track record in managing international teams and working for international clients such as European Commission. He has MA in Political Science, is fluent in Lithuanian and English, and has a very good command of Russian.

Key areas of expertise

• Policy areas: education, employment and social policies.
• Methods: ability to understand, creatively apply and combine various social science methods in an interdisciplinary context.
• Project management: solid experience in planning and delivering large scale and complex assignments, supporting project teams and communicating with the clients. Rimantas has led assignments commissioned by the EU institutions since 2007. These involved comparative policy analysis across EU Member States, EEA and Candidate Countries and policy evaluations, which analysed impacts and added value of various EU interventions, interaction between EU and Member State institutions, and challenges of multi-level governance.