Šarūnas Liekis is a Lithuanian historian and political scientist.
He is Professor of Politics and dean of the faculty of politics and diplomacy at the Vytautas Magnus University (since 2010).
He is an expert on inter-ethnic relations and conflicts.
He worked as a diplomat 1992–1993, as a research and teaching assistant at Brandeis University 1993–1997, as Director of Programs at the Open Society Fund Lithuania 1997–2001, as deputy director of the Center for Stateless Cultures at Vilnius University 1998–2000, as assistant professor of history at Vilnius University 1999–2000, and as Miles Lerman Research Fellow of the Center for the Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2001–2002.
He has served, inter alia, as an expert for the Lithuanian government Department for Minorities (since 2003), country deputy expert for the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) at the Council of Europe (since 2002), and country deputy expert for the EU Fundamental Rights Agency in Vienna (since 2003).