Dr
Marisa Farrugia is currently the Ambassador of the Republic of Malta
to the Republic of Poland. She presented her credentials to His
Excellency Andrzej Duda, President of the Republic of Poland, on the 25th
October 2021.
She served as the
Deputy Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean in Barcelona and
was in charge for Social and Civil Affairs from September 2019 to August 2021.
Dr Farrugia was appointed by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Malta as Special Envoy to the Union for the
Mediterranean and served in this role from July 2017 to August 2019. As Special Envoy, she was responsible for Global issues
and other sectors mainly the 5+5 Dialogue and tourism.
Prior to her
posting in Barcelona, she was Head of Unit for the MENA region at the Ministry
for Foreign and European Affairs, and subsequently Assistant Director at the Directorate for External Relations and
Mediterranean Affairs from 2014 to mid-2017.
In 2012, she was posted at the Embassy of Malta in Tripoli. In the early
eighties, she served at the Foreign Office as junior Desk Officer for countries
in various regions.
Throughout her career Dr. Farrugia was also Education Officer at the Directorate
for Curriculum Management, Ministry of Education, and a visiting lecturer at
the University of Malta for more than sixteen years at the Faculty of Arts and
the Mediterranean Institute.
Marisa Farrugia
holds a Ph.D. in Arabic and Near Eastern Studies from the University of Leeds,
a Master’s degree from the University of Toronto, Canada, majoring in
international relations and the socio-political aspects of the Arab world, and
a Bachelor of Education from the University of Malta.
Among her
publications one finds two monographs: one in the Maltese language about the history of the
Maltese Alphabets. The book is entitled L-Istorja
tal-Alfabett Malti, No. 62, Kullana Kulturali Series, Malta, 2004; and The Plight of Women in Egyptian Cinema
(1940s-1960s), University of Leeds, United Kingdom, 2002.
Ambassador
Farrugia is married and has a son. She is passionate about Mediterranean and
English literature, comparative linguistics, and the visual arts.