Mario Vella was Governor of the Central Bank of Malta from 2016 to 2020.
18 Facts About Mario Vella
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Mario Vella started his education at a Catholic school in Tripoli, then returned to Malta with his family and attended De La Salle College at Cottonera.
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Mario Vella studied philosophy at the Royal University of Malta, social economy with a major in sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and international political economy at Humboldt University of Berlin in East Germany.
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In Malta, after teaching Italian and sociology in public schools, Mario Vella taught political economy and social development for about twenty years at the University of Malta.
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In 2005 Mario Vella was visiting professor in foreign direct investment and development at the Universita Cattolica di Milano and at the University of Urbino.
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Mario Vella stayed in his post, albeit with no duties, for 9 years.
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Mario Vella's work is referenced in the thesis, and it is alleged by Caruana Galizia that he might have himself authored certain parts of it.
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From 1994 till 2000, Mario Vella served in a political position as President of the Malta Labour Party.
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Also for this, Mario Vella was chosen by Prime Minister Alfred Sant to reform the Malta Development Corporation.
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In 1998, with the return of the Nationalists to government, Mario Vella left the MDC and switched to the private sector, working as director of foreign direct investment services for the consulting firm Grant Thornton in Malta.
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In 2013 Mario Vella was appointed by the new Labour government as chairman of the MDC's successor organisation, the national economic development and investment promotion agency, Malta Enterprise, where he served for 3 years.
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Mario Vella was replaced in the post by Mario Galea.
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In December 2014, Mario Vella was conferred the title of Cavaliere dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana.
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In June 2016, after former deputy governor Alfred Mifsud withdrew his candidacy, Mario Vella was appointed by the Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat for a 5-year term as Governor of the Central Bank of Malta.
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Mario Vella's nomination raised criticism by the opposition as well as by three Labour ministers, who would have preferred the more bipartisan choice of Rene Saliba.
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Mario Vella was ex officio member of the Malta Council for Economic and Social Development, and a trustee of the University of Malta Research, Innovation and Development Trust.
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Mario Vella is a regular contributor to the Times of Malta and maintained a personal blog from 2008 to 2012.
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In part, Mario Vella's philosophy is deconstructivist, tenaciously exposing the internal conflicts that tend to undercut the asserted meaning of any text.