Ambassador Brigitte Curmi presented her credentials to President of Malta Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca at The Palace, Valletta.
During the ceremony, the President and the Ambassador discussed bilateral relations.
Ambassador Brigitte Curmi is a carrier diplomat, an expert on the Arab and Muslim world, and she holds a post-graduate degree in Arabic and Islamology from the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales and a doctoral degree from Sciences Po in Paris.
Before entering her diplomatic carrier, Brigitte Curmi was a senior researcher at the Centre d’études et de recherches sur le Moyen-Orient (CERMOC) in Amman, Jordan, between 1991 and 1994. Between 1995 and 2003 she worked extensively for the French Foreign Affairs Ministry, first in Jerusalem as a cooperation attaché for the Palestinians and then in Paris as the head of social development at the development directorate.
She embraced her diplomatic carrier in 2003.
After two years as a Special Adviser for the Middle East and North Africa Director on cross-cutting issues, she served as the first secretary in the French embassies of Cairo, Beirut, and Doha between 2005 and 2011, then became the deputy head of mission in Doha between 2011 and 2013.
She was assigned as the Middle East and North Africa expert at the Policy Planning in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 2013 and 2016.
Brigitte Curmi was appointed French Ambassador to Libya in 2016, a position she occupied until August 2018.