Prof. Attard graduated with honours in Pharmacy at the University of Malta (1994) and later furthered his studies on Maltese aromatic and medicinal plants by undertaking a Master of Science degree in Agricultural and Veterinary Pharmacy (1995). He furthered his specialization and obtained a Doctorate in Agriculture from the same University in 2001. He was employed with the University of Malta as a research assistant in 1995 and in 1998 appointed within the academic stream. Prof. Attard was a part-time consultant with the Department of Plant Health within the Ministry for Rural Affairs and the Environment between 2000 and 2004. In 2007, he was officially recognised by the Medicines Authority and appointed as the herbal consultant in assessing herbal medicinal products and food supplements. Since then, he has been the Maltese delegate on the Committee on Herbal Medicinal Products at the European Medicines Agency and the Homeopathic Medicinal Products Working Group of the Heads of Medicines Agencies of the European Union. Prof. Attard has been lecturing in several areas related to medicinal plants and agricultural chemistry at the ex-Institute of Agriculture, Division of Rural Sciences and Food Systems within the Institute of Earth Systems and the Department of Pharmacy at the University of Malta. Through the Erasmus Staff Exchange Programme, Prof. Attard has lectured at several agricultural institutions including the Universities of Udine, Bologna, Milan and the Agricultural Pedagogical Academy of Vienna. He is also an academic at the James Madison University. Since his employment with the University of Malta, he supervised fifty-eight dissertations and co-supervised fifty-six dissertations at the Diploma, B.Sc., B.Pharm., M.Sc. and Ph.D. levels related to the field of medicinal plants and agricultural products. He mentored fifty-seven ERASMUS+ students from various countries and thirteen Maltese students for their placement. Prof. Attard is the author/coauthor of fifty papers and articles in renowned peer-reviewed medicinal plant and agriculture journals, eight articles in professional journals, thirteen book chapters and participated as corresponding author or author in sixty-four conferences. He has delivered several presentations at various conferences both at national and international levels. He was granted three National RTDI/R&I projects, five EU Interregional projects, an ERASMUS project, a Med Project and a EUREKA project in collaboration with a local company. Prof. Attard has also attended several conferences, seminars and workshops related to medicinal plants and plant health issues. He headed an EU delegation at the Codex Committee of Spices and Culinary Herbs at Chennai and Trivandrum, India, during the Maltese and Romanian presidency of the Council of Europe. He represents Malta on European and North African working groups, particularly the Medicinal WG within ECP-genetic resources and the Medicinal Plant Working group within AARINENA. He is a member of several learned societies within Europe and North America.