Giedrė Beconytė is a professor at the Institute of Geosciences at Vilnius University. She is a graduate of Vilnius University, earning a diploma in social geography, an MSc in system engineering (informatics), and a PhD. The main courses that she has taught are as follows: database design, the methodology of scientific research, cartographic and GIS project management, cartographic communication and logical methods. Her research interests include spatial information infrastructure, spatial analysis focusing on the geography of crime, thematic maps and mental maps. She is the author of over 50 research papers, thematic maps, textbooks and graphic design projects. In 2002, she a group of colleagues, she helped to establish the Lithuanian Cartographic Society, of which she is still executive secretary. She was the Co-ordinator of Development at the National Geoportal of Lithuania, and since 2005, she has been employed part time at the state enterprise "GIS-Centras” (in 2012–2020, she was the Head of the Spatial Information Infrastructure department).