Lorna Borġ Vassallo graduated with B.A. in Maltese Law, Economics and International Relations in 1996, Legal Procurator in 1997 and a Masters in European Law in 1998.
After a short time at the Law Courts, she worked in the educational sector, teaching Maltese, English, Italian, German and French. She also obtained all necessary qualifications for guiding in the said 5 languages and in fact was a lecturer and examiner of Tourist Guiding and French for Guiding at ITS.
Languages, along with politics, are Lorna’s passion and she also has basic knowledge Arabic, Russian, Spanish and Polish. In 2011 she read an M.A. in Translation and Interpreting at the UoM. She presently also acts as legal expert of the German language at the Malta Law Courts.
Lorna Borġ Vassallo ran for the general elections in 2003, 2008 and 2013 on the 12th district. During 2 of the general elections she was the first runner-up for by-election but no by-election took place. In 2018 PM Joseph Muscat invited her to be a candidate for the EP Elections 2019.
PM Robert Abela officially seconded her nomination. At the EP election she obtained the 3rd largest amount of No. 1 votes from all female participants.
Lorna Borġ Vassallo has been writing in the Maltese daily L-Orizzont since 1999. She also contributed to Il-Kullħadd & The Times of Malta.
Her first publication Il-Ktejjeb tal-Ħrejjef was published in 2006. In 2012 she launched Maltese through English (MTE): a Maltese grammar book after which she published 4 other books and a CD of the same series. The revised edition of MTE Book 1 was published in 2016.
Apart fromt this, Lorna is no stranger to arts. She produced various theatrical performances (2004-2006) and translated 2 French plays including Molière into the Maltese language.
She presented various TV and radio programmes on various channels and worked with TVM newsroom. Her programmes dealt with current affairs as well as legal, political, cultural and educational issues.
Recently, she decided to take up full-time employment with Government entities. She first worked with the Lands Department for some years before joining the Ministry for Foreign Affairs for the Maltese EU Presidency in 2016. There she took part in the preparations for the EU-ECOWAS Dialogue (2017), co-chaired by Hon. Vella and the ‘Our Oceans’ Conference (Malta, 2017).
Her work included preparations for the General Assembly of the UN, liaison with Embassies, the Budget document, Memoranda of Understanding and Treaties, as well as preparation for visits by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the PM and President of the Republic.
From 2020 to 2021 Lorna Borġ Vassallo served as a Special Attachée at the Embassy of Malta in Germany during the German Presidency of the EU Council. She attended specialised meetings at various Ministries of the German Government and reported various conferences. She also accompanied President George W. Vella in Berlin in September 2021.
After her return to Malta se continued her work at the same Ministry at the Directorate for Consular Services and Maltese Living Abroad where she was in charge of the preparation of document for the President, PM, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Speaker of the House and Ambassadors and was responsible for the implementation of the Electoral Manifesto.
Since 2022 she returned to work with the Joint Office. There she set up the Legal Office.
Once elected, Lorna Borġ Vassallo would like to put most emphasis on: Social services, women’s and men’s rights, more special leave for single people/parents, development & environment, tourism & education, foreign affairs, immigration.
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