Ms.Seckute has 10 year professional experience in economic analysis and forecasting working in private sector. Her areas of research focused on potential growth, economic policy, labor market and demographics, competitiveness, shadow economy and housing market. Before joining IHS Markit in 2017, she worked as a senior economist at Swedbank Macro Research primarily covering Lithuania, as well as other Western, Central, and Eastern European economies. She consistently ranked as 10-20 among the most-media-cited experts of the Lithuanian banking sector. Before starting working as economist Ms Seckute spent additional three years working as business journalist in Baltic News Service in Vilnius, Lithuania. Ms Seckute has a master's degree in financial economics from the ISM University of Management and Economics in Vilnius, Lithuania. She speaks Lithuanian and English, and some French, Russian, Polish and German.