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 * Vanessa (Grima Baldacchino) Frazier Malta’s ambassador to Italy. She was appointed in Oct. 2013, and presented her credentials to Italian President Giorgio Napolitano at the Quirinale Palace in Rome, Italy. Ambassador Frazier joined the Diplomatic Corps in 1994 and served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as desk officer for the U.S. and the Americas and later in the Mediterranean Department. She was posted to the Maltese embassies in Washington, Rome, London and Brussels. She held the post of director of the Defence Matters Directorate within the Office of the Prime Minister. In March 2014 she was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre national du Mérite (French Medal of Honor) by French ambassador to Malta, H.E. Michel Vanderpoorter. It is the highest civilian honor the French Republic can bestow. Frazier was cited for her work in European and Mediterranean defense and security and for her humanitarian work in Malta for the thousands of people evacuated from Libya during the Libyan crisis. Fasier is a 1990 graduate of Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-04-13/arts-and-culture/a-french-distinction-for-ambassador-vanessa-frazier-4604755978/