Mehr Nadeem is a journalist covering politics, technology and business in the Middle East and Pakistan. Mehr has covered foreign policy for Bloomberg News in Washington D.C., reported on Kashmir for Reuters Pakistan and Afghanistan bureau, covered Lebanon’s anti-government protest movement in 2019 with The Daily Star, and written tech-driven stories about Saudi, Iran and Pakistan for Rest of World.

Mehr graduated from Yale with a B.A. in History and a distinction as a Yale Journalism Scholar. She also holds an MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from Oxford University where she graduated with the highest honors. Her thesis, titled "Money, Materialism and Modernity; How A Discourse of Resistance Rose Against the Age of Prosperity in 1970s Saudi Arabia” is among the first scholarly works to have examined public discourse in Saudi Arabia on wealth, power and decay after the 1970s oil boom.

Currently, Mehr is working on developing film/TV projects and serves as ‘Senior Advisor’ to Cardinal40, a boutique speechwriting firm founded by former Obama speechwriters.

Born in London to Pakistani parents, Mehr spent most of her life in Saudi Arabia and is proficient in Urdu, Hindi and Arabic. Mehr spends most of her time on a plane between London, Lahore and Riyadh.