Aaron Farrugia
Aaron Farrugia | |
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Official portrait, 2022 | |
| Permanent Representative of Malta to the International Maritime Organisation | |
| Assumed office 15 May 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Ivan Sammut |
| Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Capital Projects | |
| In office 30 March 2022 – 8 January 2024 | |
| Prime Minister | Robert Abela |
| Preceded by | Ian Borg |
| Succeeded by | Chris Bonett |
| Minister for the Environment, Climate Change and Planning | |
| In office 15 January 2020 – 26 March 2022 | |
| Prime Minister | Robert Abela |
| Preceded by | Ian Borg |
| Succeeded by | Miriam Dalli |
| Parliamentary Secretary for European Funds and Social Dialogue | |
| In office 8 June 2017 – 13 January 2020 | |
| Prime Minister | Joseph Muscat |
| Preceded by | Ian Borg |
| Succeeded by | Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi |
| Member of the Maltese Parliament | |
| Assumed office June 2017 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 January 1980 St. Julians |
| Political party | Labour (national) Socialists & Democrats (European) |
| Alma mater | University of Malta |
| Website | aaronfarrugia |
Aaron Farrugia (born 1 January 1980) is a Maltese Partit Laburista (Labour Party) politician, Member of Parliament and Malta’s Permanent Representative to the International Maritime Organization. He previously served as Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Capital Projects and Minister for the Environment, Climate Change & Planning in Prime Minister Robert Abela’s cabinet and served as Parliamentary Secretary for European Funds and Social Dialogue in former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s cabinet.
He was elected as a member of the Parliament in June 2017 and was re-elected for a second consecutive time in the 2022 General Election. In Parliament he served as Head of the Maltese Delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly for the Mediterranean and member for the Foreign and European Affairs committee during the thirteenth legislature.
An economist and a lawyer, Farrugia worked as a policy Advisor to the members of the Maltese Delegation in the European Committee of the Regions and later on as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Malta Freeport Corporation
Farrugia served in a number of positions in the Labour Party, mainly as an elected member of the Administrative Council and National Executive Committee, founder of the Labour Party think-tank Fondazzjoni IDEAT and President of the Labour Youth Forum.