Dainius Kreivys
Lithuanian politician
Dainius Kreivys (born 8 April 1970) is a Lithuanian businessman and politician who served as the Minister of Economy of Lithuania from 2008 to 2011 and is a member of Seimas since 2012. He is a member of the conservative political party Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats.
On 7 December 2020, he was approved to be the Minister of Energy in the Šimonytė Cabinet.
Minister of Economy (2009-2011)
D. Kreivys took the position as minister of economy in December 2008 and mostly focused business support measures during economic crisis, simplification of business regulation and improvement of investment environment.
The Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Lithuania supervised the implementation of business support plan, introduced in 2009 to help businesses survive the impact of economic crisis.
D. Kreivys was the initiator of the public procurement reform and supervised its implementation. The reform aimed to increase procurement efficiency, transparency and economize tax payers' money by centralization, moving online, making all the data available online. During the first year of the reform, the priced in public procurement fell by a third. The reform resulted in LTL 3.1 billion saving of taxpayers' money in two years.
Following OECD recommendations, D. Kreivys initiated the reform of state-owned enterprises (SOE reform) which aimed to depoliticize state-owned asset management, increase transparency, efficiency and returns to the state of SOEs.
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