Dr. Joseph Muscat was born in Pietà in 1974. From 1992 to 1997 he was a journalist and eventually Assistant Head of news with a national private radio station. 

He was elected member to the National Executive of the Partit Laburista at the age of 21 and later nominated as Education Secretary of the Party. From 1997 to 1998 he was a member of the National Commission for Fiscal Morality.

He successfully contested the first European Parliamentary elections in Malta in 2004. In 2006 he was the recipient of the Outstanding Young Person of the Year. In June 2008 he was elected as the Leader of the Partit Laburista. Dr Muscat took office as Prime Minister of Malta on 11 March 2013.
This electoral success was repeated in the European Parliamentary elections of May 2014 and in the local councils elections of April 2015.

He graduated with Honours from the University of Malta in Public Policy and later as Master of European Studies.
In 2007 he attained a Doctorate of Philosophy in Management Research from the University of Bristol (UK).