Fra’ Giacomo Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto was elected Prince and the 80th Grand Master of the Sovereign Order of Malta on 2 May 2018, by the Council Complete of State, the electoral body. It's 54 members met in the Magistral Villa, one of the Order of Malta’s two institutional seats, in Rome.

Elected interim head of the Order of Malta on 29 April 2017, Fra’ Giacomo Dalla Torre is now elected for life as Grand Master.