Amena Bakr is currently an advisory board member at Energy Intelligence Group. Prior to her current role, she was a senior research analyst with Energy Intelligence for a year. Ms Bakr was also Energy Intelligence’s Chief Opec Correspondent and Dubai Deputy Bureau Chief for the past eight years. In that capacity, Ms Bakr received several international journalism awards for her work that covered energy news and analysis related to Saudi Arabia and other Opec countries. In 2023, she received the Opec award for best journalist, and in 2019, The International Association for Energy Economics gave her the award for Excellence in Written Journalism for covering the energy sector.

Ms Bakr was also an Energy Correspondent for Reuters news agency for six years, posted in Dubai, Doha and Riyadh. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from the Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport in Egypt, with a major in management information systems.