Indre Širvinskaitė Biography

Indrė Širvinskaitė is the President of the Lithuanian Disability Forum (LDF). She has held this position since 2024. Her work focuses on advancing the rights of persons with disabilities across all areas of the UN CRPD.

Before becoming President of LDF, Indrė worked in the field of inclusive general and higher education in Lithuania. She also completed an internship at the UN CRPD Secretariat in Geneva. Since 2023, she has served as Deputy Chairperson of the Lithuanian Independent Monitoring Mechanism for the CRPD and has contributed to the preparation of Lithuania’s 2025 CRPD shadow report. She has a degree in Political Science and International Relations.

Indrė does not have a disability herself but has a personal connection to disability, as her father passed away in a psychiatric institution. This experience has shaped her commitment to advancing legal capacity, autonomy, and protection from violence and coercion, particularly for persons with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities.