Mr Christopher Cutajar is the Permanent Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Tourism at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. He heads the administration and coordinates all the departments within the Ministry, which also covers European Affairs and Trade. 

Mr Cutajar sits on the Governing Board of Administrators of the International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law since 2020. He holds an Honours Degree, which was then supplemented by an Executive Master in Business Administration, both from the University of Malta. In his younger days he was an activist within the civil society as the young leader of the General Workers’ Union Youths, editor of a local journal, and financial officer of the executive committee of the National Youth Council.

His career within the public administration started off in 2011 when he served as Executive Secretary for Local Councils and for the national Local Councils’ Association. In June 2016 he was appointed as Permanent Secretary for Transport, Infrastructure and Capital projects for a 4-year stint. During that period, he coordinated major projects such as the Triton Square project, which is a landmark at the entrance of Valletta. He was also the Deputy Chairperson of the Maritime Security Committee at that time.

During his current tenure at the Foreign Affairs Ministry, Malta intensified its multilateral efforts through a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council in 2023-2024 and by assuming the Chairpersonship-in-office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in 2024, which was culminated by a successful OSCE Ministerial Council that took place in Malta in December of that year. 

He was born in 1985 and is married with one son. Fluent in Maltese, English and Italian; also conversant in Spanish.