Experience

Malta Tourism Authority

• Malta
• Travel Arrangements
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Manager

  • Mar 2022 - Present



Valletta Design Cluster - Valletta Cultural Agency

• Malta

• Manager

  • Oct 2014 - Feb 2022

  Itself based on a lean start-up approach, the creation of the Valletta Design Cluster consists of learning from design practitioners, and researching and bringing out the strengths and the opportunities for design and associated creative practices, with a view to constructing a support framework, a task-oriented organisation and a dedicated set of cluster-based services to maximise innovation and internationalisation of design-driven creativity in Malta. Itself based on a lean start-up approach, the creation of the Valletta Design Cluster consists of learning from design practitioners, and researching and bringing out the strengths and the opportunities for design and associated creative practices, with a view to constructing a support framework, a task-oriented organisation and a dedicated set of cluster-based services to maximise innovation and internationalisation of design-driven creativity in Malta.



EU OMC Group on Culture and Creative Sector - Entrepreneurship and Innovation

• Brussels

• Expert

  • Mar 2016 - Jun 2019

  Network of experts from EU Member States and the European Commission with mandate to identify best practices, research trends and develop recommendations on entrepreneurship and innovation in the Cultural and Creative Sector, within the Open Method of Coordination framework under the EU Work Plan for Culture. Network of experts from EU Member States and the European Commission with mandate to identify best practices, research trends and develop recommendations on entrepreneurship and innovation in the Cultural and Creative Sector, within the Open Method of Coordination framework under the EU Work Plan for Culture.



Valletta 2018 Foundation

• Valletta, Malta

• Research Committee Member

  • Jul 2013 - Mar 2019



Inizjamed

• Valletta, Malta

• Support

  • 2008 - Sep 2018



Ministry responsible for Culture

• Valletta, Malta

• Manager, Culture Directorate

  • Aug 2013 - Nov 2017

  Since my involvement in the Culture Directorate (formerly Culture and Audiovisuals Unit), I have worked together with the team at the Directorate and other colleagues on the following initiatives: - co-drafter of the National Cultural Policy (2011) - co-drafter of the Creative Economy Strategy (2012) - co-creation of schemes and co-drafting of guidelines/applications for: The Malta Arts Fund, the Malta Film Fund, INVEX Scheme (creative start-ups programme), KREATTIV (Education+Creativity scheme), Culture Card; the Malta Digital Games Fund; the President's Creativity Award (2010-2014). - review of the Theatre and Film Age Classification regulations - review of the Malta Council for Culture and the Arts Act (now Arts Council Malta Act) - review of Cultural Heritage Act - workshops with stakeholders in the creative economy, cultural and creative education, Intellectual Property (incl. music and audiovisuals), cultural heritage. - collaborations with the Valletta 2018 Foundation on the Cultural Mapping project Show less



Theatre Studies Department

• University of Malta

• Visiting Lecturer

  • Oct 2008 - Jul 2013



Culture and Audiovisual Unit, Ministry of Tourism, Culture and the Environment

• Coordinator

  • Mar 2008 - Jul 2013



Creative Economy Working Group

• Creative Economy Advisor

  • Jan 2010 - Mar 2013



Malta Tourism Authority

• Malta
• Travel Arrangements
• 100 - 200 Employee

• EU Affairs Coordinator

  • May 2000 - Dec 2004

• Strategic Planning

  • 2000 - 2004