Mr Edmund O’Sullivan is Editorial Director of Middle East Economic Digest (MEED), the weekly business magazine published in London. A writer, broadcaster and expert about Middle East political and economic affairs, O’Sullivan is a graduate from the London School of Economics in monetary economics. He worked as a Reuters reporter and a government economist before joining MEED as a specialist in finance, energy and developments in the GCC. He was made Editor in 1985, Editor-in-Chief in 1988 and has been a director of MEED since 1989.

After seven years as MEED’s Publishing Director, O’Sullivan took up his new role as editorial director and MEED general manager based in Dubai in September 2003. In this capacity, he chairs MEED’s conferences, which number more than 20 in the present year, and seeks to develop MEED’s activities in the region. The most recent successful conference chaired by O’Sullivan was the groundbreaking Arabian Hotels Investment Conference (AHIC) held in Dubai at the start of May. Guests included Prince AlWaleed Bin Talal, chairman of Kingdom Holding, Shaikh Ahmed Bin Saeed al-Maktoum, chairman of Emirates and James Hogan, chief executive of Gulf Air.

O’Sullivan has written and edited a number of guide books about the region including MEED’s Business & Practical Guide to the UAE. Most recently, he co-authored Major Projects in Dubai, a report about developments in the fastest-growing city in the Middle East.

O’Sullivan is a member of the board of EMAP Media, a division of UK media group EMAP Plc, and a member of the international advisory board of ITIM, which organises high-level executive trade missions to the Middle East. He is also a member of the advisory board of the Emirates Centre for Strategic Studies.

O’Sullivan is a frequently-used expert commentator on Middle East affairs for the BBC, CNN and CNBC. O’Sullivan has won several industry awards and he was named business publisher of the year for 2003 by the UK’s Periodical Publishers’ Association, the trade body for the British magazine industry. In Dubai, he hosts The Editors, the Middle East’s first weekly discussion show about the media developments, on Dubai Eye 103.8FM, the talk radio station owned by the Dubai Radio Network and is a weekly guest on the Business Breakfast show every Sunday on the same Radio Station.

An enthusiastic connoisseur of the arts, O’Sullivan was a member of the bass/baritone section of the world-famous London Welsh Male Voice choir and has performed with the choir at London’s Albert Hall, the Festival Hall Cardiff and, memorably, before the international rugby games at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff. He is married with one son.