Ian Micallef
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Ian Micallef (born 6 September 1969, Gzira, Malta) is the President of the Chamber of Local Authorities of the Congress of the Council of Europe. He was first elected to that position in May 2006 and re-elected on 27 May 2008 for a two-year mandate.
A specialist in European law, Ian Micallef has served as a municipal councillor for Gzira, in Malta, since 1994, and has acted as Chair of the Association of Local Councils of Malta since 1996.
His international political career started in 1996 after he led the Maltese delegation to the Congress of the Council of Europe. Since 2000, he has been an executive member of the Commonwealth Local Government Forum[1]. Since 2002, he has sat on the Venice Commission's Council for Democratic Elections[2]. In May 2004, he was elected as Vice-President of the Congress of the Council of Europe, where he is a member of the European People's Party group.
Micaleff is also a former Vice-President of the Committee of the Regions of the European Union. He has taken part in the organisation and planning of several key international conferences at the Council of Europe and has been responsible for reports on the situation of local democracy in several Council of Europe member states, including the United Kingdom and Sweden.
