Simon Busuttil

The Honourable Simon Busuttil MP
Busuttil at a March 2017 EPP Malta Congress
Leader of the Opposition
In office 13 May 2013 – 4 October 2017
President	Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca
Prime Minister	Joseph Muscat
Succeeded by	Adrian Delia
Leader of the Nationalist Party
In office 8 May 2013 – 15 September 2017
Preceded by	Lawrence Gonzi
Succeeded by	Adrian Delia
Member of the European Parliament
In office 23 March 2004 – 10 March 2013
Succeeded by	Roberta Metsola
Personal details
Born	(1969-03-20) 20 March 1969 (age 48) Attard, State of Malta
Political party	Nationalist Party
Children	3
Alma mater	University of Malta University of Sussex

Simon Busuttil (born 20 March 1969) is a Maltese politician who was Leader of the Opposition within the Maltese Parliament. He also served as a Leader of the Leader of the Nationalist Party and a Member of the European Parliament for the Malta consitituency.

Busuttil, who is from Lija, graduated as Doctor of Laws (University of Malta, 1993), MA in European Studies (University of Sussex, 1994) and Magister Juris in International Law (University of Malta, 1995). As a student he was President of the Maltese Christian Democrat Students, SDM (1989–91), Student Representative on the Senate of the University of Malta (1991–92) and International Secretary of the Maltese National Youth Council (1992).

Busuttil served as an adviser on EU affairs to a number of government Ministries and as a visiting lecturer at the University of Malta before being appointed Head of the Malta-EU Information Centre (MIC) and member of the Core Negotiating Group (negotiating Malta's membership in the EU) and the Malta-EU Steering and Action Committee (MEUSAC) in 1999.

In 2004 Busuttil was elected as an MEP with the Nationalist Party in the election for the European Parliament. He was the first Maltese MEP to address the European Parliament, delivering a speech on July 21, 2004. He was again successful in the 2009 election.

As an MEP he was a member of the bureau of the European People's Party (EPP) and sat on various committees including the European Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control and its Committee on Budgets. Within the EPP he led the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee and covered issues that include the common European immigration and asylum policy.