Management
David Westley
Head of content and editorial
Tel: 04 3602743
Contact for: General business, publishing enquiries, partnership
opportunities
David Westley was previously the editorial director of the online division of Dubai-based
publisher ITP, responsible for business and current affairs website ArabianBusiness.com.
He previously worked for Dow Jones Financial News in the UK, daily newspaper Gulf
News in Dubai and was the GM of Dubai-based DIT, the publisher of PC Magazine and
Forbes ME. He has an MBA from the UK’s Cranfield School of Management, postgrad
degree from the UK-based Chartered Institute of Marketing and honours degree in
Politics, Philosophy and International Studies.
Editorial
Dylan Bowman
Editor
Tel: 04 3654293
Contact for: General editorial enquiries
Dylan Bowman is a UK journalist who has worked in the industry for seven years,
three of which have been spent in the Middle East. Prior to joining Maktoob News,
Dylan was deputy editor of ArabianBusiness.com, a business and current affairs website,
and a senior reporter for IT Weekly, a regional business technology magazine. In
the UK Dylan worked as a freelance journalist for the Sunday Express, a national
weekly newspaper, and before that as a senior reporter for the Bedfordshire on Sunday,
a local weekly newspaper. Dylan has also worked for the Big Issue, a London weekly
culture and entertainment magazine.
Rajiv Sekhri
Sub Editor And Senior Business Reporter
Contact for: All business, market news enquiries
Rajiv Sekhri has worked for global newswire Reuters in Frankfurt, Toronto and London,
covering business and general news. He studied and worked in the United States before
joining Reuters in London in 1999 where he worked until 2008. He speaks English,
Hindi and German.
Peter Harrison
Senior News Reporter
Contact for: All general news enquiries
Formerly chief reporter and defence writers for the award-winning UK newspaper Western
Morning News, Peter's experience as a UK journalist spans a decade - with additional
stints at national weekly newspapers the Mail on Sunday and Sunday People, and the
bi-weekly South London Press. Peter is NCTJ and Trinity Mirror certified and has
a degree in communications.
Shakir Husain
Business Reporter
Contact for: All business, market news enquiries
Shakir Husain has 15 years of experience in journalism of which he spent 12 years in the Gulf.
Before joining Maktoob News, he worked for three and half years with Dubai’s Gulf News as a business reporter.
Earlier he worked as assistant editor of Bahrain-based Oil and Gas News weekly and as business reporter and sub-editor with Sharjah’s Gulf Today.
He started his career in New Delhi with the Asian Age, a multi-edition daily, and held the position of senior sub-editor.
He received his education in India and holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce and a master’s degree in political science.