WGMSalomeja Zaksaite

Salomėja Zaksaitė was born in Kaunas in 1985. She won the Lithuanian women's championship in 2014, 2016 and 2025, after earlier national silver medals. She became a woman international master in 2003 and a woman grandmaster in 2023. Her national-team appearances included Olympiads and several European Team Championships.

Zaksaitė also pursued a legal and academic career. After studying law at Vilnius University, she completed a doctorate in 2012 examining cheating in sport and the problems of preventing it. Her work at Lithuania's Law Institute included juvenile justice and criminal-law research. She later held a postdoctoral appointment at Mykolas Romeris University, investigating legal aspects of fraud in sport. Her research interests include doping, match-fixing, corruption and crime prevention.