Vasco Malta
Vasco Malta, has a degree in Law and a L.LM. in European Law in a Global Context, by Católica Scholl of Law. He is a lawyer since 2005 and started his work in the human rights area within the High Commissioner for Migration and Intercultural Dialogue, in Portugal, in 2009. He was also legal adviser to the Commission for Equality and Against Racial Discrimination and was part of the Portuguese National Commission for Human Rights.
He was appointed, by the Portuguese Government, since 2009 as a National Liaison Officer to the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, and since 2014 until 2018, worked in the Agency based in Austria as a National Expert. Since 1 February of 2018 he was appointed as Deputy of the High Commissioner for Migration in Portugal, and since 1 March 2019, Head of Migration Policy, International Relations, Enrolment of Migrants of the High Commissioner for Migration. In November 2019 he was appointed as Deputy of the PT Minister of Homer Affairs, with the areas of migration, refugees and traffic of human beings and, in November 2020, after an international selection process, he was appointed as Head of Mission of the IOM in Portugal. He is often a guest speaker at several national and international conferences