Kate Dourian is a fellow of the Energy Institute in the UK and a non-resident fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. She is a contributing editor at MEES and senior editor at Iraq Oil Report. From 2015 to 2018, she was MENA program officer at the International Energy Agency. Her past experience includes 13 years with S&P Global Platts and 17 years with Reuters. 

Kate is winner of the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award for the advancement of energy journalism by the Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah International Foundation and the 2022 Lifetime Achievement award from Gulf Intelligence. A dual British/Swiss national, Kate speaks fluent French, Arabic and Armenian.