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Professor Dalia Leinarte was born in Trakai, the Republic of Lithuania (former USSR) on 25 October 1958. She graduated from Vilnius University in 1981. Dalia completed her PhD studies in history in 1996, one of the first thesis defended after the break of the Soviet Union. Leinarte is a historian, author and an expert in women's human rights.

In 2012 Dalia Leinarte was elected a member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). She currently serves as the Committee's Chairperson.

Dalia Leinarte is an accomplished academic and the author of several books on family history Imperial Russia and Soviet Union. For almost two decades she was the head of the Gender Studies Centre at Vilnius University. Leinarte currently holds the fellow commoner position at Lucy Cavendish College at the University of Cambridge.