Simone Borg
Dr. Simone Borg read law at the University of Malta where she graduated with a doctor of laws degree (LL.D.) in 1991 and a Magister Juris degree in Public International Law in 1994. In 2009, she obtained her Ph.D. at the International Maritime Law Institute, on the conservation of marine natural resources. She is the Republic of Malta’s ambassador for climate change.
Dr. Borg worked for the public sector from 1991 to 2004. She started her career as a First Secretary with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and then held the position of Head of the Legal and Multilateral Affairs Section within the Ministry of the Environment. During this time she was mainly responsible for negotiating Malta’s position in International Environmental Multilateral Agreements, including the negotiations to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol, the Barcelona Convention on the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea and its Protocols, and drafting legislation and legal policy making in environmental and energy law. She coordinated the transposition of the environmental and energy acquis communautaire during Malta’s negotiations to become an EU Member State. She also participated as a freelance legal expert on environmental law in various projects with the European Union and the United Nations.
Dr Simone Borg served for two years as the first Chairperson to Malta’s Occupational Health and Safety Authority. She has chaired the Committee for Environmental Awards for Maltese Industry in its last two sessions. Presently, she is Head of the Department of the Environmental and Resources law within the Faculty of Laws at the University of Malta, where she is a resident full time academic. She is also a visiting lecturer at KU Leuven, the IMO’s International Maritime Law Institute and the University of Auckland in New Zealand. She has published many articles and papers and has written two Monographs on Malta’s Environmental Law. She is currently in the process of publishing her Ph.D. as well as two other books on Energy law in Malta and on Climate Change Law. She was the legal adviser to the Malta Policy Group of Experts on Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change, and she is also Malta’s representative to the EU Group of Experts on Adaptation to Climate Change.
