Valdas Adamkus
President of Lithuania in 1998-2003 and 2004-2009. Adamkus was born in 1926 in Kaunas but he emigrated to the West at the end of the Second World War. Adamkus received the Prize for supporting cooperation between Central and Eastern European countries, especially Poland and Lithuania.
Photo: Dolnośląski Urząd Wojewódzki