Lawrence Zammit is to be appointed Chairman of Malta Enterprise and Malta Industrial Parks Limited, while Dr Sue Vella will be appointed as Chief Executive Officer, the government announced today.

They will succeed Alan Camilleri who is moving abroad at the end of his term.

Both appointments will take effect as from 12 May 2012.

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Mr Zammit, until recently chairman of Air Malta, is a founding partner of MISCO, the marketing research and HR consulting firm with operations in Malta and Cyprus. He also served as chairman of the Malta Development Corporation, the Employment and Training Corporation and Malta International Airport and was also involved in the setting up of Malta Enterprise.

Dr Sue Vella joined Malta Enterprise as Chief Operations Officer in March 2010. Prior to joining Malta Enterprise, Dr. Vella was Chief Executive Officer at the Employment and Training Corporation, while also serving as Vice President of the Employment Committee in Brussels and Chair of its technical group. She has worked in public sector consultancy and in various policy fields, also serving on a number of public sector boards and committees including vocational education, housing, social welfare and pension reform.

Finance Minister Tonio Fenech expressed his appreciation to Alan Camilleri while expressing confidence that Mr Zammit's and Dr Vella's experience in working with different industrial sectors would ensure that Malta Enterprise would continue to build on the positive results achieved over the past years in terms of attracting foreign direct investment to Malta and in supporting the continuous development and growth of Maltese industry and enterprise.