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Robert Micallef is an economist and National Editor for Eurobarometer surveys published by the European Commission. He is a consultant and trainer on European affairs particularly EU Funding as well as a University lecturer in Economics and International Policy. He is currently a member of the Faculty of Economics and Administration of Masaryk University, one of the leading universities in Central Europe. Robert Micallef was employed as an economist! with the European Commission for a number of years and worked for the European Union Delegation to Malta during the crucial years of EU-Malta accession negotiations. In 1999 Robert Micallef was nominated as an official member of the European Union Presidency Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly. For a number of years, he was active within the United Nations system in Geneva and New York regularly participating in the UN Commission on Social Development and the UN Commission on Sustainable Development as well as in numerous UN summits and conferences. He has also worked as a management consultant and as a Trainer in Capacity Building for the Council of Europe.

Robert Micallef studied politics and economics at the University of Oxford and was later awarded the British Chevening Scholarship for research studies at the London School of Economics and the University of Bristol. He graduated Master of Arts from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, one of the most distinguished graduate schools in international affairs jointly administered by Tufts and Harvard Universities. He also graduated Master in Business Administration in Technology Management from the Grenoble Graduate School of Business in France.

In 2004, Robert Micallef was elected by the Malta Labour Party General Conference to stand as a candidate for the European Parliament Elections. He participated in the founding congress of the Party of European Socialists in 1992 and in the following year was elected secretary of the European Socialist Youth/European Secretary of the International Union of Socialist Youth in Vienna. He was a founding delegate of ECOSY, the European Community Organisation of Socialist Youth and elected international secretary of the MLP's Labour Youth Forum. He was later elected President of the National Youth Council of Malta, President of the Ghaqda tal-Malti(Universita) and Vice President of the International Youth and Student Movement for the United Nations in Geneva, Swi! tzerland. In the EYF General Congress in Salsburg, Austria, Robert was elected member of the leadership bureau of the European Youth Forum for a two-year term based in Brussels responsible for External Relations and the United Nations.

Robert Micallef blogs on a regular basis at www.robertmicallef.com/blog and is the creator of Wired Temples - Malta on the Web, a daily blog which is part of the MaltaMedia Online Network. He is contributing editor for aboutmalta.com, the online guide to everything about the Maltese islands. At Oxford, he contributed regularly to student journalism and was co-editor of a student journal.
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