Joel Campagna heads CPJ's Middle East program, overseeing the organization's research and advocacy for the Persian Gulf, Mashriq, Maghreb, and Turkey. He has led CPJ fact-finding and advocacy missions to Algeria, Israel and the Occupied Territories, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, and Yemen to investigate press freedom conditions. Prior to his work at CPJ, Campagna was a consultant to Human Rights Watch from 1993 to 1996, conducting research in Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria. Campagna has lived and studied in Egypt where he attended the American University in Cairo's intensive Arabic language program. He has a master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and a bachelor's degree in Middle East Studies from Fordham University.

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