Born in 1971 in Malta and a native of Żejtun (Malta), Ramona Frendo obtained a law degree at the Università ta’Malta (University of Malta) in 1993 and a doctorate in law at that university in 1995. She continued her studies at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), which awarded her an M.Phil. in criminology in 1996. In 2018, she completed her university education with a postgraduate degree in European law at King’s College London (United Kingdom).

Ms Frendo began her career as a lawyer at the Maltese bar, a profession she exercised from 1996 to 2019. Her multidisciplinary knowledge also led her to work as a legal advisor in the Maltese Ministry of Social Protection from 1997 to 1998 and as a legal expert at the courts of Valetta (Malta) between 1997 and 2019 and in a number of insurance companies from 2006 to 2019.

She was a member of the national panel of arbitrators of Malta from 2006 to 2019 and of the Employment Commission of Malta from 2009 to 2019. She was a member of the National Family Commission (Malta) from 2012 to 2013 – the year in which she also served on the Commission for the Holistic Reform of the Justice System (Malta) – and, subsequently, a member of the Law Commission (Malta) between 2014 and 2016. After being appointed by the Maltese Government as a special advisor to the Visa Working Party of the Council of the European Union in 2016, she was Chairwoman of that working party during the Maltese Presidency of the Council in the first half of 2017.