Charles Galdies has received his Ph.D. in Remote Sensing and GIS from Durham University (UK) in 2005. He studied ways to improve small-scale weather and ocean forecasting in the central Mediterranean region using novel remote sensing observations of the ocean and atmosphere. He served as Malta's Chief Meteorological Officer from 2007 to 2011, and Deputy Executive Director of the International Ocean Institute Headquarters. He was also Malta's PR with WMO of the United Nations.