Jon Barber

Jon Barber is Vice President of Marketing and Communications at TECOM Group and Vice Chair of MEPRA (Middle East PR Association). He is a Chartered Member of CIPR (Chartered Institute of Public Relations) and has been named in PR Week’s Middle East Power Book of the top 100 PR Professionals in the past four years. Mr. Barber has over 25 years of experience in the Middle East and Western Europe. A Broadcast Journalist graduate of Nottingham Trent University, he spent more than 10 years with the BBC as a news and sports journalist. For the past 15 years, he has worked in the UAE and KSA as a leading communicator for many notable brands including TECOM Group, ADNOC, Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, DAMAC Properties, Dubai World Trade Centre and ACWA Power.