John Bambridge Email & Phone Number

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Managing editor for all features and analysis content on the MEED.com business intelligence and projects markets insight platform for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. • Responsible for internal and external commissioning, for delivering editorial value while working within a strict budget, and for quality controlling the style and substance of the 60-year-old brand. • Also responsible for editing the associated MEED Business Review publication, a monthly 84-page publication, from content writing, selection and sub-editing to design oversight and approval. • Broadly engaged with issues relating to digital functionality and presentation, monitoring Google Analytics for trends and flagging errors to maintain the performance of the subscription service.

Dubai Media City, Dubai, Uae

• Editor of PMV Middle East, overseeing the design and delivery of editorial across a 50- to 80-page monthly magazine title catering to the heavy equipment and vehicles sector in the Gulf region.• Responsible for producing industry news, analysis and commentary, developing interviews and project case studies, and bringing fresh style and substance to the magazine and its brand.

Jlt, Dubai, Uae

• Launch editor of Gulf Africa Review, an online news platform project aimed at highlighting business and trade ties between the GCC and sub-Saharan Africa. • Responsible for coordinating the design and technical teams in the delivery of first an in-house and then custom WordPress site, and curating engaging content as a basis for the exploration of commercial opportunities.

Jlt, Dubai, Uae

• Business editor at Aetius Media, then a digital media start-up specialising in content, search engine optimisation (SEO), website development and corporate rebranding. • Responsible, as the first hire by the founders, for producing content for the company's anchor clients in the Gulf.

Dubai Media City, Dubai, Uae

• Reporter for Construction Week (CW), a trade publication for the Gulf construction industry.• Responsible for generating exclusive news content, conducted face-to-face interviews and site visits and developed wide-ranging technical features for publication in both CW and its sister titles.

Dubai Media City, Dubai, Uae

• Analyst and client service executive at GfK, one of the top four market research firms in the world. • Produced around 50 monthly market intelligence reports on the IT/telecoms sectors in the Gulf and Africa based on the analysis of point-of-sale data. • Responsible for collating information from two dozen countries, data cross checking, modelling and visualisation.

Ipswich, United Kingdom

Twickenham, London