Appointment of registrar of the Malta Arbitration Centre

Mr. Godfrey M. DeMarco has been appointed Registrar of the Malta Arbitration Centre.

Mr. DeMarco was one of the original Permanent Secretaries appointed in 1992 and served in that capacity in the Ministries for Youth and the Arts and of Justice and Local Government. During his Civil Service career he also served for long periods at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and at the Ministry of Education. He was Secretary-General of the Maltese National Commission for UNESCO between 1978 and 1990 and headed various Maltese delegations that negotiated Cultural Agreements and Protocols with a number of countries.

He has been Permanent Secretary responsible for the Ministry of Justice since 1995. At the Ministry of Justice he headed various Commissions that made recommendations to Government on the streamlining of certain functions and procedures in the legal departments and was deeply involved in legal administration matters. He has been servicing the needs of the Centre since the promulgation of the Arbitration Act in 1996.

Mr DeMarco is married to Anna ne'? Darmanin and has two children.