CURRICULUM VITAE

ARTHUR MACDONALD

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SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

I have broad experience of working on newspapers at both local and national levels including daily, evening and national publications largely specializing in business and financial journalism. I spent almost five years as head of press and public relations at Dundee District Council and a year in commercial public relations in Dubai with Action Dubai.

I returned to the UK at the beginning of April.

September 2007 to October 2013

Business Editor Gulf Daily News in Bahrain

September 2006 to August 2007

Business Editor Bahrain Tribune

May 2004 to June 2006

Editorial Director MSC Action public relations company in Dubai .

January 2003 to May 2004

Business Editor Khaleej Times in Dubai.

February 2000 to January 2003

Senior business reporter on the Press and Journal

newspaper in Aberdeen, Scotland .

1997 to 2000

Freelance working

Editor of Business View magazine in Dundee, which

circulated throughout the North-east,

Part time lecturer in journalism at Dundee

College

1996 to 1997

Editor of the Inverurie Herald in Aberdeenshire

(local weekly)

1991 to 1995

Head of press and public relations for Dundee

District Council.

1979 to 1991

Senior business reporter on The Scotsman

newspaper in Edinburgh, at the time the premier

business newspaper in Scotland

1977 to 1979

Industrial reporter on the Peterborough Evening

Telegraph

1975 to 1977

News reporter on the Alloa Advertiser in

Scotland

EDUCATION

University of Dundee 1969 - 1973

MA Political Science and Modern History.

Alan Glens' School, Glasgow 1963 - 1969

Higher Grades in English, Mathematics, Geography,

Physics and Chemistry

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