Eithne Treanor is the founder & CEO of ETreanor Media, a specialist media consultancy company based in Dubai. She is a professional conference moderator and facilitator, an expert media and communications trainer, as well as a seasoned energy industry commentator. Eithne has interviewed thousands of leading politicians, dignitaries, energy ministers and highranking international business people. She also acts as OPEC’s official on-air conference and webcast moderator. She has worked around the world, moderating and chairing a large number of global conferences.

Eithne is CNBC Arabia’s Special Consultant and she has trained television journalists in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and in Russia. In her earlier career, she worked as an international television journalist for ABC News, Sky News, BBC World, and CNBC Europe and was instrumental in the launch of Bloomberg TV in Europe. She is a graduate of Trinity College in Dublin and she did post-graduate studies at The London School of Economics.