Youssef M. Ibrahim is currently the Managing Director of Strategic Energy Investment Group (SEIG) based in Dubai, Media City.

Before taking up this position Mr. Ibrahim served for 18 years as senior regional Middle East correspondent for the New York Times and for 6 years as Energy Editor for the Wall Street Journal. In 1999 he took up an assignment as Vice President Head of Media and Public Affairs for North and South America & Special consultant to the management board on Middle East for British Petroleum. In 2002 Mr. Ibrahim accepted a one-year task as Senior Fellow for Middle East Affairs at the Council on Foreign Relations, the prestigious think-tank in New York, USA. After this he served as Group Editor for Energy Intelligence Group, which publishes a wide range of energy-related weekly and daily bulletins.

He formed SEIG in Dubai in 2003 to advise companies on a wide range of issues, from political risks to business opportunities. Mr. Ibrahim writes weekly and bi-weekly columns in Gulf News and the Daily Star. He also writes opinion-editorial pieces for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, and United Press International on geopolitical affairs of the Greater Middle East and the USA. His radio and television commentaries have appeared on CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight, Al Arabiya, National Public Radio in the USA, and CNBC (both Arabic and English programs). He has published over 4000 articles since 1979, and he is the author of a 354-page geopolitical profile of Egypt.

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