Prof. Petra Caruana Dingli is an Associate Professor at the Edward de Bono Institute for Creative Thinking and Innovation at the University of Malta. She also lectures within the Faculty of Arts. She has long-standing experience working within the non-governmental sector in cultural heritage. She has been a Chairperson of the Mdina Cathedral Archives since 2021. She is also a Council Member of the University's academic staff association UMASA, Council Member of the heritage NGO Din l-Art Helwa and Editor of its magazine Vigilo, and Curator of St Peter's monastery museum in Mdina. She holds a doctorate in the field of literature from the University of Oxford. Her current research focuses on the concepts of creativity and cultural heritage in literature, nineteenth-century women writers and early modern women and religious heritage, particularly in relation to female monasteries. Petra first graduated with a B.A. in English, Philosophy and Sociology at the University of Malta. She continued her studies in literature and graduated with a B.A. (Hons) and M.A. at the University of Malta. She then wrote a doctoral thesis at the University of Oxford, UK, and graduated with a D.Phil. in 2000. She graduated with an M.B.A. in General and Strategic Management from the Maastricht School of Management in 2003. .