Alicia Bugeja Said

Alicia Bugeja Said (born 1987 in Mgarr) is a Maltese politician from the Labour Party.

After finishing her tertiary education in Malta, she obtained her Doctoral degree (PhD) from the University of Kent in the United Kingdom in 2016.

[1] Successively, in 2017 she pursued a post-doctoral position at the Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada, and in 2019 she moved to Brest in France to conduct further research with IFREMER.

She has published a number of academic articles and edited a few books, and participated in various conferences worldwide She was elected to the Parliament of Malta in the 2022 Maltese general election under the gender quota.

[2] She was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Fisheries, Aquaculture and Animal Rights in the Maltese Government.

Alicia Bugeja Said at the informal meeting of Fisheries Ministers in March 2024.