Maria Bartiromo Profile…

Emirates Business has a profile of CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo…(via OCN)

Bartiromo has been at the forefront of financial reporting for more than a decade taking in the Asia crisis, dotcom boom and bust, Enron and now the sub-prime debacle.

“I feel so fortunate to have had a front seat to it all,” she said.

“To have learnt something new every day. Meeting and calling the players and getting the information – that’s what I do.”

But it is the unprecedented economic boom in the Gulf that is now vying to be at the top of the financial news agenda in the West. On her first trip to the region, Bartiromo said it has lived up to the hype she had been hearing in the United States – prompting her to “follow the money and find out what it was all really about”.