H.E Fiona-Jayne Formosa is the current Ambassador of Malta to Ireland, having assumed the role in March 2025.

She graduated from the University of Malta with a Bachelors (Honours) degree in International Relations in 1996 and subsequently joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in September of that year. Her first assignment was as a Second Secretary within the Multilateral Affairs Department. Three years later she read for a Masters’ degree in Diplomacy at the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies at the University of Malta, and upon completion, moved on her first posting to the Embassy of Malta in Athens in 2000. Upon her return to Malta in 2003, Ms Formosa took on different assignments at the Ministry in the Bilateral Relations, Global Issues and European Affairs Departments. Her next posting came in 2008 when she was appointed as Malta’s Consul General in Toronto, Canada; a role she continued to occupy until 2011.

From 2012 to 2024, Ms Formosa was promoted to different roles including Director European Affairs, International Development and European Institutions (2012-2014), Permanent Secretary (2014-2020) and Director-General Political, External Relations and European Affairs/Political Director (2020-2024). Her first Ambassadorial assignment was to Turkey as a non-resident Ambassador from 2014 to 2017.

Ms Formosa studied Italian, French and German and also has a basic knowledge of Greek. She is married with two children.