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Dr André Xuereb is Malta’s ambassador for Digital Affairs within the Ministry for Foreign and European Affairs. A physicist by training, he read for a BSc in Mathematics and Physics at the University of Malta, an MA in Entrepreneurship at the University of Malta, and a PhD in Theoretical Physics at the University of Southampton, UK. He is currently reading for an MA in Diplomacy. André is associate professor and head of the Department of Physics at the University of Malta. He founded and leads the quantum research group Quantumalta at the University of Malta.

Outside his diplomatic and academic life, André co-owns an educational software start-up, and is chief scientific officer of a sustainable mobility start-up. He is happily married to a lawyer, a proud father of a beautiful daughter, and owns far more guitars than he has talent.