Andrius Kubilius has been a member of the European Commission responsible for defense and space since December 2024. He served as prime minister of Lithuania twice, from 1999 to 2000 and from 2008 to 2012, and as a member of the Seimas, the Lithuanian parliament, for 27 years.
Kubilius also served for five years as a member of the European Parliament, in which he chaired the Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly, and for 12 years as chairman of the Homeland Union-–Lithuanian Christian Democrats. He was secretary-in-charge of Lithuania's pro-independence Sąjūdis movement in the early 1990s.