The Commissioners for Administrative Investigations
Commissioner for Environment and Planning
Perit Alan Saliba
(2017 – )
Perit Alan Saliba was born in Pietà on 8 November 1970. He studied at the Junior Lyceum, Junior College, and the University of Malta, where he obtained his degree as a Bachelor in Engineering and Architecture (Honours) in 1993 and, the following year, awarded the warrant to practice his profession as Perit.
Over the years, Perit Saliba pursued his professional development and specialised in Valuations for Accredited Valuers, Ethical Obligations of Arbitrators, and Award Writing and on the impact of the Rent Laws Act X of 2009 on valuations.
Perit Saliba started his career in the public sector, where he was involved in social housing projects for the Government Housing Department. He later set up his private practice and was involved in various commercial and residential projects, from design to demolition and construction supervision. During his career, he also performed commercial and residential valuations for one of the leading banks in Malta and served as Project Architect on various recreational projects and community facilities.
Since 1995, Perit Saliba has been appointed as a Court Expert on building litigation and valuations. From 2004 to date, he also served as an Arbitrator with Malta Arbitration Centre on Building Litigation. Between 2006 and 2013, he was a Member of the General Service Board and served on the Board of Professional Conduct within the Kamra tal-Periti. Since 2011, Perit Saliba has been a Technical Member of the Land Arbitration Board, Rent Regulation Board, and Rural Leases Control Board.
Perit Alan Saliba was appointed Commissioner for Environment and Planning for the first time on 1 September 2017 and reappointed for the second term on 13 September 2022.
Commissioner for Education
Chief Justice Emeritus Vincent De Gaetano
(2021 - )
Chief Justice Emeritus Vincent Anthony De Gaetano was educated at St Aloysius’ College, at the Royal University of Malta, and at the University of Cambridge (Gonville and Caius College). He joined the Attorney General’s Office in 1979 and served as Deputy Attorney General from 1989 to 1994.
He served on a number of Council of Europe expert committees and was president of the Steering Committee on Legal Cooperation (CDCJ) and chairman of the Multidisciplinary Group on Corruption (GMC). In 1994, he was appointed judge of the Superior Courts, and in 2002, he was appointed Chief Justice. In 2010, he was elected to the European Court of Human Rights as the judge in respect to Malta, served as vice-president of Section IV, and later became president of Section III of that Court. He retired from the court in Strasbourg in September 2019 after serving a full nine-year term.
In September 1988, he obtained his teacher’s warrant and was a lecturer and later senior lecturer in Criminal Law and Law of Criminal Procedure at the University of Malta and a regular member of the Faculty of Laws from 1991 to 2017. He has lectured and published extensively on legal and human rights topics in Malta and abroad. In March 2020, he was nominated by the Chamber of Advocates to sit on the Committee of Advocates and Legal Procurators of the Commission for the Administration of Justice and was elected chairperson of that committee by the other members. He relinquished this post after his first appointment as Commissioner for Education.
In January 2021, Chief Justice De Gaetano was appointed Commissioner for Education within the Office of the Ombudsman for the remaining period of the mandate of the previous Commissioner, who had died in office in November 2020. He was reappointed for a second term on 13 September 2022.
In January 2022, he was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Centre for Human Rights of the Jagiellonian University of Kraków. The appointment was made after the necessary clearance was obtained from the Speaker of the House of Representatives pursuant to the relative provisions of the Ombudsman Act.
In June 2024, the Commissioner was elected for a three-year term to the Board of Directors of ROLE, a non-profit Rule of Law Empowerment Association incorporated and registered under French Law. The Association’s objective is to promote and defend human rights and the rule of law in Europe and Central Asia.
Commissioner for Health
Prof. Raymond Galea
(2022 -
Professor Raymond Galea was born in Floriana in 1957. He was educated at St Aloysius College and the University of Malta (UM), where he graduated as a medical doctor in 1982. He furthered his training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Leuven, Belgium, and London. He was made a Member and eventually a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1990.
He has worked as a consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at Mater Dei Hospital since 2000 and, since 2012, was appointed as Head of the Malta Postgraduate Medical Training Programme.
He has worked at the UM since 1984 as a demonstrator, lecturer, senior lecturer, and finally, as a professor in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. In 2009 he was awarded a Ph.D., having worked extensively on Osteoporosis and published various academic papers. He was a member of the UM Senate and on the Faculty Board of Medicine and Surgery. He has been part of various UM and faculty committees.
In 2006, Professor Galea obtained his teacher’s warrant. He has lectured and published both in Malta and abroad and was made a visiting Professor on the Academic Board of the International Ph.D. in Clinical Sciences at the University of Florence.
Professor Galea has been a member of the Quality Assurance Committee of the Malta Further and Higher Education Authority since 2021.
In 1994, Professor Galea founded the Malta Osteoporosis Society, a patient-support non-governmental organisation. He also formed part of the EU Parliament Osteoporosis Interest Group.
He was also a founding member of Malta Health Network and has served on the Administrator’s Board since its inception in 2017. He chaired the National Cancer Platform, which brings together all the non-government organisations working in the field of cancer in Malta.
He is a member of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, Rhodes, and Malta.
Professor Galea is married to Nathalie, and they have a daughter.
