Dr Rose Anne Cuschieri is presently Chief Executive Officer of the Malta Further and Higher Education Authority.  She was previously the Director for Educational Services within the Secretariat for Catholic Education.  She is also a part-time lecturer and tutor within the Faculty of Education at the University of Malta and the Institute of Education, Malta.  Since 1999, she has been lecturing Leadership, Management and Interpersonal Skills at the Malta Academy for Disciplined Forces.  Dr Cuschieri is also a free-lance trainer and lecturer in leadership, motivation and stress.  She is the author of several articles in both local and foreign educational and management journals and books. She has written and presented several refereed papers in different prestigious conferences both locally and abroad.

She is the Malta representative on the CDEDU, the Steering Committee for Education within the Council of Europe, and she is also an elected Bureau member of this Committee.  She is the local representative of the Bologna Follow Up Group and Co-Chair of the BFUG Working Group on Fundamental Values in Education.  Rose Anne is the local representative of ASEM and EPAN.  She is also a bureau member of the EWC (European Wergeland Centre, Norway).

Areas of Expertise: Educational leadership and management; Motivation, Satisfaction and Stress in the educational field; Communication and interpersonal skills; Further and Higher education.

Research Methods: Qualitative (including life histories).