Gintaras Steponavičius (born 23 July 1967 in Klaipėda) is a Lithuanian former Liberal politician, retiring from politics in 2020.

[2] Between 1991–1994 he worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania whilst studying, and from 1994 to 2004 he was a lecturer at the Institute for International Relations and Political Sciences of Vilnius University.

Between 1994 and 2000 he was coordinator of Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Lithuania and between 1994 and 1996 was a contributor to the quarterly journal East European Constitutional Review of the University of Chicago and between 1997 and 2000, columnist of the weekly newspaper Atgimimas and member of the City Council of Vilnius, and chairman of the Liberal Group.

[2] In 2016, Steponavičius has been involved in the 2016 Lithuanian Liberal Movement's bribery scandal involving MG Baltic, a business conglomerate with perceived Russian connections,[4] and was separately suspected of money laundering through his charity organization "Laisvės studijų centras" ("Centre for Freedom Studies") as well as another personal charity.

[6] Mantas Adomėnas, a conservative politician accused of influence peddling on behalf of the same conglomerate, is also part of the initiative.