Mark A. Sammut

Mark A. Sammut is a Maltese author.

Elder son of Maltese writer Frans Sammut and Catherine née Cachia, Mark A. Sammut was born in 1973 in Malta. He studied at St Monica School, Stella Maris College, Liceo Vassalli, and Liceo GF Abela.

He furthered his studies at the University of Malta (LL.D., M.Jur. (summa cum laude), M.A.) and at the University of London (University College London and London School of Economics and Political Science) (LL.M.).

Sammut served as Local Councillor (1993–96), Member of the Co-Operative Societies Board (1997–98), Secretary of the Notarial Council of Malta (2000–03), Honorary Consul of Latvia (2001–06), and President of the Maltese Language Association - University Ghaqda tal-Malti Università (2007–09).

Sammut was politically active for some years (1993-2003), from 1996 onward within the ranks of the Labour Party of Malta. In the electoral campaign of 2003, he had a prominent role on the eve of the elections during one the activities of the Party. He was also heavily attacked by columnist and blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia, but he is one of the few to have won libel proceedings against her, establishing that what she wrote about him was completely false. In 2010, Caruana Galizia threatened to go to the European Court of Human Rights, but never went through with it.

On November 3, 2016, Sammut launched a book containing scathing criticism of Labour Prime Minister Joseph Muscat's neoliberal policies and defence of Minister Konrad Mizzi and Chief of Staff Keith Schembri, called L-Aqwa fl-Ewropa. Il-Panama Papers u l-Poter.

He is a member of the Royal Historical Society, the European Society for Comparative Legal History, and the Malta Historical Society.

He is also an arbitrator at the Malta Arbitration Centre.

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