Prof Juanito Camilleri appointed Chairman of MCST
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Prof Juanito Camilleri has been appointed Chairman of the Malta Council for Science and Technology.
Since July 2006 Prof. Camilleri has held the post of Rector of the University of Malta where he has been spearheading a number of reforms aimed at modernising the University. Before that, he held the position of Group Chief Executive Officer of Melita Cable plc, a company which at the time was partly owned by Liberty Global Inc, and prior to this he was the founding Chief Executive Officer of Go Mobile, now Malta’s leading cellular mobile operator.
Juanito read a Bachelors degree in Computer Science at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK obtaining First Class Honours and was awarded a Rotary prize for Distinction. He obtained a scholarship awarded by Trinity College and moved to Cambridge, UK to pursue a doctorate in Theoretical Computer Science which he completed in 1990, at the age of 23. He started his working career as a Research Fellow at the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge, UK and at the time also worked as a Research Consultant.
In 1992, he moved back to Malta and founded the Department of Computer Science and AI at the University of Malta where he worked until 1999. In the meantime, he was commissioned by the Government of Malta to formulate Malta’s first National Strategy for Information Technology which was published in 1994.
Prof. Camilleri has sat on the board of directors of a number of organisations including Enemalta, the Malta Development Corporation, Malta Information Technology and Training Services Ltd (MITTS), the Malta Council for Science and Technology, and Maltacom plc amongst others. Until recently he was also a board member of Melita Cable plc.
Prof. Camilleri has also served as Malta’s representative on the European Union Joint Research Council (JRC).
Juanito is married to Dr. Astrid Camilleri M.D. M.R.C.O.G. and has a daughter Bettina.
His hobbies are viticulture, wine making, and cuisine.