Vincentas Rolandas Giedraitis is a professor at Vilnius University and the head of the Department of Theoretical Economics. He is also the deputy editor-in-chief of the journal Ekonomika. His research areas include economic development, public health, and energy security. Giedraitis earned his PhD in 2006 from the University of California, Riverside, specializing in political economy and global social change. In 2005, he received a Fulbright scholarship for suicide research in Lithuania and has been working at Vilnius University since then. In addition to his academic work, Giedraitis is the author of the book The Political Economy of Social Psychiatry: Max Weber's Conception of Disenchantment.