Biography
Ambassador Carmelo
Inguanez
Carmelo
Inguanez joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1987 as desk officer for the
Council of Europe and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
(OSCE) and later served as its Head of Unit. Between 1990 and 1995 he served as
First Secretary at the Embassy of Malta and Permanent Delegation of Malta to
the EC in Brussels. He was later posted as Counsellor at the Embassy of Malta
in Tunis where he served till 1998.
On
his return to Malta he occupied a number of positions within the Ministry. He was
Assistant Director at the Office of the Permanent Secretary and during Malta’s
EU accession negotiations he was seconded to the EU Negotiations Secretariat at
the Office of the Prime Minister as EU Negotiations Co-ordinator (External
Co-ordination). In 2003 he was appointed Director of Protocol and Consular
Services. Between 2006 and 2009 he served as Director General, European and
Economic Affairs.
In
2009 Carmelo Inguanez was appointed Ambassador of Malta to the Russian
Federation. In 2011 he was appointed Ambassador of Malta to Italy with
accreditation also for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). In July 2013
he was appointed Ambassador of Malta to Tunisia. As from 1 July 2016 he has served
as the Permanent Representative of Malta to the United Nations. On 8 December
2019 Carmelo Inguanez was appointed Malta’s Ambassador to France.
Carmelo
Inguanez is a graduate with Honours in Public Administration from the
University of Malta (1980-85). He holds a post-graduate Diploma in Foreign Service
Studies (International Law, International Trade and Finance, and International Politics)
from the University of Oxford (Green Templeton College 1987-88), and a Masters
degree in Public Management from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) 1990-91. In 2002 he followed a short-term
specialization course on the European Union at the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA) in Paris.
Throughout
his diplomatic career, Carmelo Inguanez was awarded various decorations
including those of Grande Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica
Italiana, Officer of the
Order of the Three Stars of the Republic of Latvia, Member of the Order of the
Cross of Terra Mariana III class of the Republic of Estonia, Officer of the Order
of the Republic of Tunisia, and Commander of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Cyprus. He has also been awarded
the Medal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation “For
the Contribution to International Cooperation”.
Carmelo
Inguanez was born on 19 December 1961 in B’Kara, Malta. He is married to Odile Sammut and has three children.