Kamel Labidi is the President of the National Commission to Reform Information and Communication (INRIC), Tunisia. He was previously a consultant to the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) and represented the Committee to Protect Journalists for the Middle East and North Africa. He was also Amnesty International Human Rights Education Coordinator for the MENA region based in Beirut; an Amnesty International field officer in Palestine, and Director of the Tunisian Section of Amnesty International. In the mid 1990s, he was a correspondent of United Press International (UPI) and researcher for Reporters Sans Frontieres in Tunisia. In 1988-1994, he was the French daily La Croix's Tunis correspondent. He has been a contributor to several newspapers, including Le Monde, since the 1970s.