Roberta Metsola
Roberta Metsola
was first elected to the European Parliament in 2013, becoming one of
Malta’s first female Members of the European Parliament. She was
re-elected as an MEP with a record amount of votes topping the list for
the Partit Nazzjonalista (PN). In 2017, she became the EPP Group’s
Coordinator in the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home
Affairs. Professionally she is a lawyer who has specialised in European
law and politics. She was appointed Shadow Minister for Foreign and
European Affairs in January 2015.
Roberta served within the
Permanent Representation of Malta to the European Union from 2004 to
2012 as Malta’s Legal and Judicial Cooperation Attaché and Head of the
Justice and Home Affairs Unit there. Following that, she joined the team
of the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs
and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton, as a legal adviser.
She left that role to fill the vacant seat of current Opposition Leader in Malta, Dr Simon Busuttil, as an MEP. In her student years, she active in various organisations, acting as the Secretary-General for the European Democrat Student organisation between 2002 and 2003.