Moira Catania

Dr Moira Catania was appointed as Chairperson of the Malta Fiscal Advisory Council in January 2023. She graduated BA (Hons) in Economics obtaining a first-class degree in 1994 and Master of Arts in European Studies with Distinction in 1998, both at the University of Malta. She obtained her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Bradford, UK in 2019, with a thesis on Budget Institutions in the Euro Area – Quality of budget institutions, legislative budgetary power and implications for fiscal discipline.

From 1994 till 2010, she worked at the Economic Policy Department, within the Ministry of Finance, the Economy and Investment. In 2002, she was appointed Director (Economic Strategy) within this Department. Dr Catania has worked extensively on issues related to the monitoring and analysis of the domestic economy, macroeconomic policy and on the EU economic policy coordination and fiscal surveillance processes.

Dr Catania has been a resident academic staff of the Institute for European Studies at the University of Malta since October 2010. She was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2023 and in October 2024, she was appointed as Director of the Institute for European Studies. She lectures courses in introductory economics, economics of European integration and EU economic and monetary union. Her main research interests concern budget institutions, EU economic governance, economic and monetary union, EU economic integration, as well as Malta in the EU, particularly economic and monetary union and competitiveness issues.