Aušra Seibutytė-Maldeikienė (born 4 June 1958) is a Lithuanian political economist, politician, lecturer, teacher, publicist and book author.

After one day symbolic period of membership in the Liberal Democratic Party (now Order and Justice), which she joined in order to protest the "overly harsh" treatment by opponents of Rolandas Paksas (president at that time, undergoing impeachment), she was a candidate of the Civic Democratic party at the 2009 elections of the European Parliament.

Šimonytė made this decision in November 2018, upon being granted support from the party of Homeland Union - Lithuanian Christian Democrats (though staying an independent).

[4] On her personal website and social media account she started to publish weekly reviews, analyzing campaign actions of the remaining presidential candidates in the light of the developments of national and global politics.

[8] Such committees made up from a number of willing voters serve as an alternative to the parties in order to enable independent candidates to run for some offices.

[10] In its electoral programme "Aušros Maldeikienės traukinys" has expressed intentions, if elected, to join one of the firmly pro-European factions, e.g. ALDE, European Greens or a new group based on Emmanuel Macron's "La République En Marche!"

[11] In June 2019 Aušra Maldeikienė announced she's joining European People's Party's (Christian Democrats) group, after evaluating the new transformations of ALDE (merging with other political forces to form Renew Europe) and the possible mismatch of her declared views to theirs, as well as, according to her, being rejected by the European Greens due to the objection of their member from Lithuania, Bronis Ropė.

The description of it says "it was created as a result of the promise of Aušra Maldeikienė to bring more of European policy questions into the national public space".

In September 2019 it was made public that Aušra Maldeikienė has stage II breast cancer, with her telling the media the unexpected diagnosis reached her in August 2019.

[22] In May 2020 in her social media account Aušra Maldeikienė announced that her treatment is finished and that there are no signs of the cancer remaining and thanked her doctors.