Hadley Gamble (born Laura Gamble; September 10, 1981) is an American

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based in

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Early life

Gamble attended

Halls High School Halls High School is a high school in the Halls Crossroads suburb of Knoxville, Tennessee, operated by Knox County Schools. Founded in 1916, the school was one of the first in the area. It is named for Pulaski Hall, a prominent citizen and owner ...

in Knox County, Tennessee.

Career

Hadley Gamble is CNBC’s Anchor based in Abu Dhabi. Hadley anchors Capital Connection from CNBC’s Middle East Headquarters based within Abu Dhabi Global Markets. The show, broadcast daily, gives you a reading on Asia’s markets mid-day and sets you up for the Middle East and European trading day. In addition, Hadley also fronts CNBC’s popular feature franchise Access: Middle East where she speaks to world leaders, international CEOs and philanthropists. Among the guests: King

Abdullah II of Jordan Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein ( ar, عبدالله الثاني بن الحسين , translit=ʿAbd Allāh aṯ-ṯānī ibn al-Ḥusayn; born 30 January 1962) is King of Jordan, having ascended the throne on 7 February 1999. He is a member of t ...

, US Secretary of State

Mike Pompeo Michael Richard Pompeo (; born December 30, 1963) is an American politician, diplomat, and businessman who served under President Donald Trump as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 2017 to 2018 and as the 70th United State ...

, Blackrock CEO

Larry Fink Laurence Douglas Fink (born November 2, 1952) is an American billionaire businessman. He is the chairman and CEO of BlackRock, an American multinational investment management corporation. BlackRock is the largest money-management firm in the w ...

, Egyptian President

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil el-Sisi; (born 19 November 1954) is an Egyptian politician and retired military officer who has served as the sixth and current president of Egypt since 2014. Before retiring as a general in the Egyptian mil ...

, Facebook’s Sean Parker, HRH Princess Reema bin Bandar Al-Saud and Bill Gates, as well as U.S Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and U.S Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. In October 2018, interviewed Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir was the first comment from a Saudi official following Khashoggi’s death. She was also the first international journalist to be live on the ground at Aramco oil facilities in September 2019 reporting the damage left by Iranian rockets and drones. Hadley regularly anchors for CNBC from the World Economic Forum in Davos, moderating panels on topics ranging from geopolitics to economics. Hadley is also a passionate advocate for women. She moderated the first ever women’s business forum in Saudi Arabia and provided exclusive content to CNBC as the Kingdom lifted its decades-old driving ban.

Early career

Gamble worked for ABC News and Fox News in Washington, DC. Gamble presented ''CNBC's Access: Middle East'' and ''Access: Africa''. Gamble has reported several times from the

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Personal life

Hadley is from

Knoxville, Tennessee Knoxville is a city in and the county seat of Knox County, Tennessee, Knox County in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 United States census, Knoxville's population was 190,740, making it the largest city in the East Tennessee Grand Di ...

in the United States. She is a cousin of famed interior designer

Albert Hadley Albert Livingston Hadley Jr. (November 18, 1920 – March 29, 2012) was an American interior designer and decorator. Hadley was born in Springfield, Tennessee, in 1920. He attended Peabody College in Nashville for two years, after which he wo ...

. She attended the

University of Miami The University of Miami (UM, UMiami, Miami, U of M, and The U) is a private research university in Coral Gables, Florida. , the university enrolled 19,096 students in 12 colleges and schools across nearly 350 academic majors and programs, incl ...

in Florida, and was a member of

Delta Gamma Delta Gamma (), commonly known as DG, is a women's fraternity in the United States and Canada with over 250,000 initiated members. It has 150 collegiate chapters and more than 200 alumnae groups. The organization's executive office is in Columbus ...

sorority.

References

Living people Place of birth missing (living people) American expatriates in the United Arab Emirates CNBC people University of Miami alumni Journalists from Tennessee American television news anchors American women television journalists Halls High School (Knox County, Tennessee) alumni 1981 births 21st-century American women {{US-tv-journalist-stub