Biography: CHARLES J. FARRUGIA is Malta’s National Archivist. A Commonwealth Scholar, Dr Farrugia holds an Honours Degree and a Masters Degree in history from the University of Malta, a Post Graduate Diploma in Records Management from the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, and a MA in Archives and Records Management from University College London. He is also a member of the Society of Archivists of the U.K. In 2006 he published the history of Maltese archives and in 2008 edited a collection of 27 essays on archival themes. Mr Farrugia represents Malta on the European Archives Expert Group and the Working Group on the Digitisation of Cultural and Scientific heritage. He is a Visiting Lecturer in archives and records management at the University of Malta, where he was the founder of archives training in 2005. During the same year he drafted the National Archives of Malta Act and steered a reform in the sector, separating archives from libraries and the setting up a new National Archives Agency. He was also the host and organiser of the 41st International Conference of the Round Table on Archives (CITRA) held in Malta in November 2009. He has served for two terms as Chairman of the Association of Commonwealth Archivists and Records Managers (ACARM). In 2014 he was honoured by the Award for Excellence in Archives and Records Management by the Malta Library and Information Association. Farrugia finalized his doctoral studies at the University of Aberystwyth. During his professional and academic carrier Charles has delivered lectures on archival themes in a number of foreign institutions including the Central European University, Budapest, the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa and the University of Parma, Italy, the University of São Paolo, Brazil, the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom and for the Ilfov County Archivists Association, Ilfov, Romania
