Background

Ambassador Antony De Bono has just completed a four year tenure as Malta’ Ambassador to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and is currently the Perpetual Ambassador for the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO), which organisation he Chaired in the UK for three years. For 12 years Mr. De Bono held the post of Chief of Staff of three Ministers of the Maltese Government with policy and executive level experiences in portfolios ranging from Telecommunications, Health, Environment Industry, Agriculture, Fisheries and National Infrastructural Development. During these twelve years De Bono was instrumental in the rapid development and modernisation of the National Health services. Ambassador DeBonocaptainedTelemalta Corporation the National Telecommunications service provider as its CEO for 14 years with a brief to modernise the telecommunications infrastructure of the Maltese Islands and to project Malta in the International Telecommunications Arena. During his term of office as CEO, Malta was singled out as the role model for telecommunications development at the ITU World Telecommunications development Conference at Buenos Aires in 1994. During this period he functioned as a Director on the Vodafone-Malta Board of directors after having successfully introduced mobile services in Malta in 1989, with Malta, besides becoming the First country in Europe to have a homogeneous 100 % digital switching and transmission network was also the First country that Vodafone invested with, outside the UK. . He has served for more than 15 years as Malta’s Special Envoy to the United Nations’s Special Agency, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and was Malta’s Candidate to contest the post of ITU’s Secretary General. For 3 years he served as Deputy Chairman and Chairman of Malta’s Postal Services. He is also Chairman of the Telecommunication Executive Management Institute of Canada (TEMIC) Chapter for Europe, Middle East and North Africa. Ambassador De Bono was elected for 2 years as President of the European Commission for Posts and Telecommunications (CEPT) with his office in Copenhagen and chaired the European Telecommunications Network Operators (ETNO) the industry’s strongest lobby in the European Union and headquartered in Brussels .Ambassador De Bono who graduated an MA in Business Management and served for four years on the Administration and Engineering Faculty Boards of the University of Malta brings to Damina Advisors (www.daminaadvisors.com) , Goldwater Inc ( www.goldwater.it), ACEGAFRICA (acegafrica.com), 8D Ghana (8dghana.com), Handsonsystems Malta (www.handsosystems.com) over 40 years of leadership experience in the Public Service, the Political and Diplomatic domains and more specifically extensive expertise in the ICT industry and the politcal and commercial world.