Professor Lino Briguglio (born January 1944) possesses a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Exeter (UK) and a Special Diploma in Social Studies from the University of Oxford. He obtained his Honours and Master's degree in Economics from the University of Malta. He was formerly head of the Economics Department of the University of Malta (1996-2008). He currently directs the Islands and Small States Institute and the Gozo Centre of the University of Malta.
His main area of interest is islands and small states studies, in particular economic aspects, and he has authored many publications on this subject. He is known internationally for his seminal work on the "Vulnerability Index" (see for example World Development, Sept 1995) which led to a world-wide interest and to many quantitative studies on Economic and Environmental Vulnerability.
Professor Briguglio is editor of Bank of Valletta Review published by the Bank of Valletta and also serves on the editorial boards of a number of other journals. For a time he was the general editor of the Islands Series published by Cassell-Pinter, London.
Professor Briguglio has acted as consultant to several international organisations including the UN Department of Policy Coordination, UNCTAD, UNDP, UNEP, CARICOM, the Commonwealth Secretariat and SOPAC. He has also represented the Maltese government in many United Nations meetings, including the UN Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island States and the World Summit for Sustainable Development.
Prof. Briguglio is one of the lead authors for the chapter on Small Island States of the Fifth Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Currently Professor Briguglio forms part of the Malta Commission for Fair Trading.
23 May 2012
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