Since December 2010, Miriam Teuma has been Chief Executive of Aġenzija Żgħażagħ, Malta's national youth agency. As Chief Executive she is responsible for implementing and coordinating Malta's national youth policy Towards 2020 - A Shared Vision for the Future of Young People.

Miriam Teuma has been a lecturer in the Youth and Community Studies Department at the University of Malta for the past fifteen years. She is a founding member and was president of the Maltese Association of Youth Workers for eight years. She also has extensive experience at European Union, Council of Europe, Commonwealth and international level on youth related issues and is the former vice-president of ERYICA (European Youth Information and Counselling Agency). She has also worked with the European Knowledge Centre for Youth Policy, SALTO and the EuroMed Youth Platform and has contributed papers on youth work policy and practice to a number of international studies.

In March 2018, she was elected chairperson of the Council of Europe's Steering Committee for Youth where she chaired European Youth work Task force group and the working group of the Council of Europe Youth Strategy 2030.