Aaron Farrugia | |
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 Official portrait, 2022 | |
| Minister for Transport, Infrastructure & Capital Projects | |
| In office March 30, 2022 – January 8, 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Ian Borg |
| Minister for the Environment, Climate Change & Planning | |
| In office January 15, 2020 – March 26, 2022 | |
| Parliamentary Secretary for European Funds and Social Dialogue | |
| In office June 8, 2017 – January 13, 2020 | |
| Member of the Maltese Parliament | |
| Assumed office June, 2017 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 January 1980 St. Julians |
| Political party | Labour Party (Malta) (national) Socialists & Democrats (European) |
| Alma mater | University of Malta |
| Website | aaronfarrugia |
Aaron Farrugia (born 1 January 1980) is a Maltese Partit Laburista (Labour Party) politician and a Member of Parliament. He previously served as Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Capital Projects and Minister for the Environment, Climate Change & Planning in Prime Minister Robert Abela’s cabinet and served as Parliamentary Secretary for European Funds and Social Dialogue in former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s cabinet.
He was elected as a member of the Parliament in June 2017 and was re-elected for a second consecutive time in the 2022 General Election. In Parliament he served as Head of the Maltese Delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly for the Mediterranean and member for the Foreign and European Affairs committee during the thirteenth legislature.
An economist, Farrugia worked as a policy Advisor to the members of the Maltese Delegation in the Committee of the Regions and later on as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Malta Freeport Corporation
Farrugia served in a number of positions in the Labour Party, mainly as an elected member of the Administrative Council and National Executive Committee, founder of the Labour Party think-tank Fondazzjoni IDEAT and President of the Labour Youth Forum.