Serge Barbet is a French-Argentinean journalist specialising in media education and civic values. He was an advisor to the French Minister of Education, Higher Education and Research between 2014 and 2017. Since 2018, he has been Head of the Centre for Media and Information Education, an institution run by the French Ministry of Education and responsible for creating teaching tools and developing continuing education programmes for teachers on media education, critical thinking and civic values.