Carmen Ogilvie Galea has been appointed Chief Executive of the Gozo General Hospital and Dr Ian Ellul has been appointed Chief Executive of the Central Procurement and Supplies Unit,
The Ministry for Health and Active Ageing made the announcement in a statement on Friday.
Ms Ogilvie Galea graduated in Economics from the University of Malta and has served in various positions since joining the Public Service in 2000. She started her career in the Public Service as Principal and later as Senior Principal in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs until 2004.
She was appointed to the position of Assistant Director (EU Affairs) in the Ministry for Investment, Industry and IT until 2009 when she was then appointed as Head (OP I) in the Planning and Priorities Co-ordination Division.
Ms Ogilvie Galea was appointed as Director (Corporate Services) in the Ministry for Gozo in 2011, a position she held until 2016 when she was appointed as Director General in the same Ministry. Recently she was holding the post of Director General at the Gozo General Hospital.
Dr. Ian Ellul worked at the Medicines Authority in pharmaceutical regulatory affairs for ten years, and successfully founded the Clinical Trials Unit which managed to attract many trials in Malta, and also transposed several legislative texts. He has been working in the CPSU for several years, with the work mainly related to the evaluation of various procurement cycles of pharmaceutical products.
In 2020 he was appointed by the Maltese Council for Science and Technology to represent it in the technical evaluation committee related to the national COVID-19 R&D Fund of €5.3 million, as approved by the European Commission.
Dr. Ellul is a graduate and also holds a PhD from the Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Malta.
Minister for Health and Active Ageing Jo Etienne Abela congratulated both in their new roles.
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