Professor Briguglio is a scholar of repute, well-known internationally for his seminal work on the economic vulnerability and the economic resilience indices. Together with his research associates, he also developed the Vulnerability and Resilience Framework, which attempted to explain why small states succeed economically in spite of their high degree of economic vulnerability.
Dr Stefano Moncada, Director of the ISSI, highlighted that "the Islands and Small States Institute of the University of Malta confirms its key role as a centre of excellence in islands and small state studies, and the work of Prof. Briguglio is a testimony of the ongoing contribution that the ISSI has been giving to academia and policy".