The Prime Minister has appointed Professor Frank Bezzina B.Ed. (Hons.) (Melit.), Dip. Ed. Mangt. (JEB), M.Sc. (SHU), Ph.D. (Melit.) to serve as Director of the Bank in terms of the Central Bank of Malta Act for a period of five years with effect from 1 January 2018, the bank said in a statement.

Professor Bezzina is the Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Management and Accountancy (FEMA) and Head of the Department of Management at the University of Malta. Professor Bezzina lectures Applied Business Statistics, Decision and Risk Analysis, Management Science, and Research Methodology.

His research interests are varied but mainly focus on investigating phenomena in the Organisational Sciences. He has published several papers in international peer-reviewed journals on risk management, corporate governance, transformational leadership, evidence-based management and statistical/methodological misconceptions.

Professor Bezzina is a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS, UK), steering committee member of the British Academy of Management’s Research Methodology special interest group and holds visiting professor positions at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, Croatia and the Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland.