Dan Murphy is CNBC’s Anchor and Correspondent in the United Arab Emirates, covering global business, markets, economics, and geopolitics from the heart of the Middle East.

Dan is also the host of Access Middle East - CNBC’s flagship program from the region. The show is broadcast worldwide and features in-depth interviews with Heads of State, Finance Ministers, Central Bank Governors, sovereign wealth fund executives, and leading regional leaders and CEOs.

Dan provides high-level insight into the Gulf’s rapidly evolving economic landscape, and the vast pools of capital driving transformation across the region. His field reporting spans major financial hubs and geopolitical hotspots - from anchoring live coverage in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar to covering critical elections in Turkey and Israel, and delivering high-stakes interviews in Egypt and Russia.

A leading voice in energy and geo-economics, Dan was awarded the 2023 GI International Energy Journalism Award for his reporting on global energy markets. He regularly reports from OPEC meetings in Vienna, and also serves as an Energy Journalism Fellow at Columbia’s Center of Global Energy Policy.

Dan regularly reports from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Riyadh, and Dubai, and has led more than 100 high-level panels at global conferences and events focusing on the Middle East, finance, banking, energy, technology, aviation, and leadership in the Arab world.

In 2024, Dan was named one of thirty-six Young Global Leaders by the Atlantic Council and selected for the prestigious Millennium Fellowship, which recognizes leaders shaping the future of international affairs.

Dan began his career with CNBC in Singapore in 2015, and was part of the team that launched the network’s Gulf bureaus in Dubai and Abu Dhabi in 2018. Prior to CNBC, he reported for Sky News in Australia.