Dr. Dione Mifsud is the Immediate Past President of the International Association for Counselling (IAC) and current chair of the World Regions Development Committee of IAC. He was President of IAC from 2012 to 2019. He is also the founder and past Head of the Department of Counselling at the University of Malta from 2012 to 2021. Dione is also a Past Head of the Department of Psychology at the same university, a PastHead of the University of Malta Counselling Unit, and past President of the Malta Association for the Counselling Profession (MACP). He designed and coordinated the first Masters in Counselling programme offered by the University of Malta. He also co-designed and coordinated an international Masters programme in Transcultural Counselling with the University of Maryland at College Park (USA) and as a collaborative degree with the University of New Orleans and later with the University the Cumberlands (USA). He also designed a Post graduate Certificate in Counselling Supervision and co-designed a Post Graduate Certificate in Adlerian Counselling. His research interests include counselling practice, counselling ethics, counselling supervision and transcultural counselling. Dione has served as the Harassment and Bullying advisor of the University of Malta since 2014.