Former Parliamentary Ombudsman
Mr Anthony C. Mifsud
2016 - 2023
Mr Anthony C. Mifsud was a career public officer before he was appointed Auditor General in 2008. His last posting in the Public Service was as Permanent Secretary at the former Ministry for Resources and Infrastructure. His first deployment was at the Treasury for 5 years before being transferred to the Office of the Prime Minister on appointment as Higher Executive Officer in 1969.
In 1970 he was granted a UK Government fellowship to train as a Systems Analyst at the Mid-Essex College of Technology. At the Establishments Division he was deployed at the Efficiency Development Branch and later at the Organisation and Training Branch.
Following the recommendation of the Public Service Reform Commission, in 1990, he was entrusted to set up the Staff Development Organisation and appointed its first Director.
In 1997, he was appointed Director General at the Office of the Prime Minister and was responsible for the setting up of the Charter Support Unit and involved in the establishment of the Regional Policy Directorate now styled the Planning & Priorities Coordination Division. In 2004, he was appointed Permanent Secretary at the Ministry for Resources and Infrastructure.
He was elected to the Executive Committee of the Standing Conference of the European Public Service Training Agencies, which he chaired for 4 years up to June 1998. From 1998 to 2001 he was the national representative on the International Council for IT in Government Administrations (ICA). Mr. Mifsud is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development in the UK.
He was a member of the University Council for twenty years and was the Government representative on the Board of the Faculty of Economics, Management and Accountancy for thirty years.
On the 16th March 2016, by unanimous resolution of the House of Representatives, he was appointed as Parliamentary Commissioner for the Administrative Investigations known as the Ombudsman.
Chief Justice Emeritus
Joseph Said Pullicino
2005 - 2016
Chief Justice Emeritus Joseph Said Pullicino was born in Sliema on 16 January 1937. He studied at the Lyceum and the Royal University of Malta where he graduated B.A (Hons.) in History in 1958 and Doctor of Laws in 1961. He went in to private practice in the fields of civil and commercial law. He served on various government committees set up to advise on reform in the administration of justice and court management.
Chief Justice Emeritus Said Pullicino was appointed Commissioner of Justice and later Chairman of one of the Commissions for the Investigation of Injustices, a post he retained for a number of years even after his appointment of judge in 1990.
He sat mainly in Civil Courts where he also presided over constitutional cases involving human rights. He was sworn Chief Justice in July 1995 and in this position he presided over the Constitutional Court, the Court of Appeal, the Court of Criminal Appeal and other courts.
He was for eight years Malta’s representative on the Venice Commission for Democracy through Law at the Council of Europe. As Chief Justice he was ex officio Vice President of the Council for the Administration of Justice.
After his retirement in January 2002, in April of that year he was appointed Chairman of the Malta Broadcasting Authority, a position he held up to December 2005. On 12th of December 2005 he was by unanimous resolution of the House of Representatives appointed Parliamentary Commissioner for the Administrative Investigations known as the Ombudsman. On the 11th of March 2011, again by unanimous resolution, he was reconfirmed for his term as Ombudsman.
He is married to Geraldine nee Micallef and they have one daughter, Lara.
Former Parliamentary Ombudsman
Mr Joseph Sammut
1995 - 2005
Mr Joseph Sammut is a graduate in economics and in public administration. He joined the Public Service in 1953, serving in various government departments.
In 1969 he was transferred to the Office of the Prime Minister as a macroeconomist, attaining the top post of Economic Secretary in 1976. During this period, he was responsible for the preparation of national development plans and for major infrastructural projects.
In 1983 Mr Sammut was appointed Administrative Secretary and Head of the Civil Service, serving concurrently as Secretary to the Cabinet until 1987. He held the position of Administrative Secretary and Head of the Civil Service for over twelve years, interrupted by a period of two years when he was appointed Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Cooperation Council States, and High Commissioner to India, with residence in Riyadh.
In July 1995 Mr Sammut resigned from the Civil Service to take up the office of Ombudsman, newly created by statute; he was appointed by unanimous resolution of the House of Representatives. On 31 July 2001 he was reappointed for a second five-year term by a unanimous resolution of the House of Representatives, relinquishing the office in July 2005.
Following the completion of his second term as Ombudsman, Mr Sammut held leading positions in various public bodies, including appointment as Chairman of the Diocesan Commission for Culture, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Banif Bank (Malta) plc, and Member of the Today Public Policy Institute, a think-tank.
One of his pastimes is painting. He has held four one-man exhibitions and published a book entitled Views and Hues, illustrating 70 local watercolour views. The proceeds from the sale of the paintings and the book were donated to charitable institutions.
Mr Sammut is married to Evelyn née Attard.
