Mark Camilleri is a historian, wrote several books and used to write for the press before becoming the Executive Chairman of the National Book Council in 2013. He is also the founder of the Front against Censorship and co-authored amongst Ingram Bondin and Andrew Sciberras various laws relating to free speech which have been approved by parliament, including a bill on removing artistic censorship and the media and defamation bill. He is currently a Phd-student working on a thesis on the philosophy of history.