Nadine Hani
A boardroom conversation on global markets needs more from its chair than a smooth introduction. Senior decision-makers will not engage when the host cannot follow the substance, and the people who know the substance often cannot run a room. Most stages end up settling for one or the other.
Nadine Hani is a senior business journalist and Al Arabiya presenter who moderates major economic conferences, giving organisations a chair with the financial substance to push past rehearsed talking points.
Full Profile
Why organisations work with Nadine Hani
- A moderator with genuine financial substance: an MBA from the American University of Beirut and a prior career as a private banking consultant at ABN AMRO and BNP Paribas, before two decades anchoring business news at Al Arabiya. Few hosts on regional stages carry that depth.
- Interview experience that translates directly to live moderation. She has questioned Henry Paulson, Timothy Geithner, Jamie Dimon, David Rubenstein and Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud on Al Arabiya, and has reported from Davos every year since 2008.
- Working fluency in Arabic and English with native command of the Arab business landscape, well suited to GCC and pan-regional events where audiences switch between languages and references shift between Wall Street and Riyadh.
- A track record on the stages where serious money meets policy: confirmed moderator at Future Investment Initiative programmes in Riyadh and at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos.
Biography highlights
- Senior Business News Presenter at Al Arabiya News Channel; presenter and co-producer of Al Aswaq Al Arabiya.
- Former business news anchor at CNBC Arabiya, Dubai, and former private banking consultant at ABN AMRO and BNP Paribas in Lebanon.
- Has interviewed Henry Paulson, Timothy Geithner, Jamie Dimon, David Rubenstein, Robert Zoellick, Michael Eisner and Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud.
- Moderator at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting and at the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh; reporting from Davos annually since 2008.
- Weekly columnist on financial and economic affairs for An Nahar, Lebanon.
- MBA, American University of Beirut; Procter & Gamble scholarship recipient.
Biography
On the stages where finance ministers and global fund managers take questions, the host is often the weakest link. Most are journalists with an introductory grasp of markets, or industry figures who cannot run a room. Hani is one of the few who can do both.
She has presented and co-produced Al Aswaq Al Arabiya on Al Arabiya News Channel since 2005, after joining from CNBC Arabiya in Dubai. She also writes a weekly column on financial and economic affairs for An Nahar in Beirut. The work has put her in the chair opposite Henry Paulson, Timothy Geithner, Jamie Dimon, David Rubenstein, Robert Zoellick and Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud.
Her financial fluency was earned before broadcasting. She worked as a private banking consultant at ABN AMRO and BNP Paribas in Lebanon, advising high-net-worth clients on investment alternatives. She holds an MBA from the American University of Beirut, where she was a Procter & Gamble scholarship recipient.
On the international circuit, she has reported from Davos every year since 2008. She regularly moderates at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting and at the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh, the annual gathering convened by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. Both events draw the senior investors and policy figures she has spent two decades interviewing. She works fluently in Arabic and English, and is comfortable on either side of the switch when audiences are mixed.
Key speaking topics
- Global markets and economic outlooks
- Middle East and GCC economic developments
- Monetary policy and central banks
- Financial sector and banking
- Capital flows and sovereign wealth
- Geopolitics affecting markets
- Business journalism and financial media
Ideal for
- Investor conferences and capital markets events that need a chair with the financial fluency to question CIOs, fund managers and finance ministers
- Pan-Arab and GCC corporate gatherings where bilingual moderation in Arabic and English is required
- Sovereign-fund and policy-led investment forums, including events run on the Future Investment Initiative or Davos model
- Awards hosting, after-dinner engagements and televised panels where on-camera poise matters as much as command of the subject
Audience outcomes
- Sharper questions for senior leaders, drawn out by a chair who knows where the financial substance lies
- Programme flow that makes complex economic content accessible without diluting the detail for specialist attendees
- Bilingual delivery where audiences move between Arabic and English mid-conversation without the room losing thread
- Discussion that gets past rehearsed talking points and into the issues senior decision-makers actually want addressed