Mourad Labassi holds a state engineering degree in Computer Science from the National Institute of Computer Science in Algeria. He worked for six years at the Center for Research in Astronomy-Astrophysics and Geophysics as a computer scientist, then as an operating engineer at Télédiffusion d'Algérie.

With Ouranos since 2003, he contributes to the implementation of the operations IT infrastructure, which he has largely modernized.