The new UK High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to Malta today presented his credentials to President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca
Stuart William Gill presented his credentials at The Palace, in Valletta, after Rob Luke's term in Malta came to an end.
During the ceremony, the President of Malta and the High Commissioner discussed bilateral relations.
“I look forward to supporting this strong and durable relationship, and to working with the Maltese government on the range of global challenges that we collectively face. We need to look not just to our long shared history but to a long shared future,” he said.
Until last month, Mr Gill was Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Iceland.
Mr Gill began his career in the UK Government’s Department for Trade and Industry, before moving to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1994.
Between 1994 and 1998, he ran the government’s Inward Investment operations in the British Consulate-General in Chicago, USA, covering the Midwest and Southern US states, encouraging US companies to set up operations in the UK.
In 1998, he moved to the UK’s Permanent Representation to the European Union in Brussels, where he led negotiations on the completion of the EU’s Single Market.
Returning to London in 2002, he was responsible for transatlantic trade issues before heading up a team dealing with the EU's relations with the Americas and Asia. During the UK Presidency of the EU in 2005, he chaired the EU’s committee on EU-US relations.
Mr Gill was appointed Deputy Head of Far Eastern Group in the Asia-Pacific Directorate of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in September 2006, covering the UK’s relations with China, DPRK, the Republic of Korea, Japan and Mongolia.
From 2008 to 2012, he was Consul-General in Melbourne, Australia, where he had consular and commercial responsibility for Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania.
He graduated from the University of Kent, Canterbury, in 1980, with a degree in Politics and Government and he is the author of one published book on the Second World War. His UK home is in Kent, England. High Commissioner Gill is married and has two daughters, Elizabeth and Claire.