Khaled Almaeena is a Middle East jornalist and analyst. He has held a broad range of positions in Saudi media for almost thirty years, including CEO of PR firm, Saudi television news anchor, talk show host, radio announcer, and journalist. Almaeena also held a series of senior positions in Saudi Airlines. As the editor-in-chief of Arab News, the largest English-speaking newspaper in the Middle East. Almaeena steered the paper through the Gulf Crisis and pioneered the movement to bring newspapers back to a liberated Kuwait. Under his direction, the paper was first in 2003 to send a Saudi reporter to Iraq to report extensively from the frontlines. Arab News was the only Saudi newspaper to have a reporter in Tahrir Square during the Arab Spring. 

In 1982, Almaeena became the Editor in Chief of Arab News. He stepped down in 1993 to head the Saudi Public Relations Company (SRPC), a position he held for five years. He returned to the top editor’s post of Arab News in 1998 and continued until October 2011. In April 2012, he joined as the Editor in Chief of Saudi Gazette, an English daily published from Jeddah, and continued in the position until the end of April 2014. 

Almaeena was awarded the highest civilian Award, Sitara-e Imtiaz (Star of Excellence), by the government of Pakistan in January 2009 and a Doctorate in Humanities from Mindanao University in the Philippines in 2009. He was awarded in 2018 at the Global Leadership Awards, Malaysia, for his achievements. He is also a visiting nonresident scholar at the University of Central Florida. Almaeena is fluent in Arabic, English, and Urdu.