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UNIVERSITY OF
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FACULTY OF ECONOMICS, MANAGEMENT AND ACCOUNTANCY Department of Economics Members of Staff |
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UNIVERSITY OF
MALTA
FACULTY OF ECONOMICS, MANAGEMENT AND ACCOUNTANCY Department of Economics Members of Staff |
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Professor Lino Briguglio (born January 1944) is Head of the Economics Department of the University of Malta. He also directs the Islands and Small States Institute of the Foundation for International Studies and the University Centre on the Island of Gozo. He currently acts as CEO of the Foundation for International. He 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. 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 one of the editors of Insula International Journal of Island Affairs, published in collaboration with UNESCO. He 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 Fourth Assessment Reportof the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Currently Professor Briguglio member of
National Commission for Sustainable Development and of the Malta Commission
for Fair Trading.
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