Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando
| Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando | |
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| Member of Parliament | |
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In office 10 May 2008 – 10 March 2013 |
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27 November 1963 Sliema, Malta |
| Domestic partner | Lara Boffa |
| Children | Jenny Greg Marija |
Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando (born Sliema, Malta, 27 November 1963) is a former Maltese Member of Parliament, currently serving as the Executive Chairman of the Malta Council for Science and Technology.
Orlando was educated at De La Salle College, Malta and the University of Malta. He graduated as a dental surgeon in 1987. He lives in Żebbuġ, Malta.
Orlando was very active, politically, as a student. He organised his first demonstration at the age of sixteen against the educational policies of the Socialist regime at the time. He was elected to represent his fellow students on the Faculty Board of the Faculty of Dental Surgery (UOM). He was also very active in the Nationalist Party youth movement (MŻPN).
He was the first councillor elected to represent the Nationalist Party on the Żebbuġ Local Council in 1992. He subsequently contested the 1996, 1998, 2003 and 2008 General Elections successfully. He was elected from two districts in the last elections he contested, being the first MP elected from one of them and the Nationalist Party MP to get the greatest number of votes from the other. His total number of first count votes was 5131. He is reported to have been encouraged by 5 successive leaders of the two main political parties in Malta, PN (Nationalist Party) and PL (Labour Party), to contest on their ticket.
He has held the posts of Shadow Minister for Telecommunications, Head of Delegation of the Maltese Parliamentary Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Vice-President of the Assembly and is currently Executive Chairman of the Malta Council for Science and Technology (MCST).
He was appointed Chairman of the Council in March 2010 by Nationalist Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi. He has had his term extended twice by the current Labour administration led by Joseph Muscat. Under his stewardship, the MCST has grown considerably. The number of employees has increased from less than 10 in 2010 to over 110 at present. Its remit has expanded to include areas such as Space and PRIMA (Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area) and there has been an exponential increase in international collaborative initiatives in Research and Innovation (R and I).
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