Semafor has hired Mohammed Sergie to be editor of its new Gulf edition.
He was previously an editor at Bloomberg News where he shaped coverage of energy and commodities in the region and was the company’s sole reporter in Qatar.
Prior to Bloomberg, he was a senior writer/editor at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he wrote about diverse topics such as currency crises, the Northern Ireland peace process, and Islam’s sectarian divide. He reported extensively from rebel-controlled territories in Syria in 2013.
Sergie covered private equity deals for Dow Jones in New York and established a bureau for the news service and The Wall Street Journal in Saudi Arabia.
He graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in political science and has a master’s in economics from Fordham University.
