Emma Graham

Based in the UAE, Emma Graham covers markets across the Middle East and North Africa and follows regional business, financial and geopolitical stories for CNBC's global audience. At the start of Emma's career at CNBC, she helped produce some of the region's most important stories including the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, Israeli elections, Lebanon's financial crisis, Gulf sovereign wealth stories, the Abraham Accords, OPEC policy and Aramco's IPO. Emma was one of two international journalists to be granted a question at Aramco's press conference announcing its IPO in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia in 2019. Emma led production and research for CNBC's exclusive interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin in October 2021 as Europe entered into a gas crisis, and has since covered the war in Ukraine from Kyiv and Moscow. Emma has worked across major stories in the region during her time at CNBC, covering the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban in 2021, breaking first on NBC news that President Ash