Reema Traynor

Reema Traynor is the Director, Legal and Regulatory Affairs (and the Companies Registrar) in the Media Zone Authority free zone in Abu Dhabi (twofour54). She specialises in the regulatory and content related aspects of media and corporate regulation at the Media Zone Authority. She provides support and advice throughout the organisation on a range of legal and regulatory matters including negotiating with a variety of government stakeholders in order to best serve the needs and priorities of the free zone community. Due to her extensive legal and practical experience in media, she helps to inform media regulatory policy in the region.

Ms Traynor is a media lawyer with over 20 years experience, in the fields of media litigation and pre and post-publication content advice for print, broadcast and digital publishers. Prior to her current role in the UAE, she worked at Channel 4 Television in the UK for 10 years advising on legal and compliance matters across all genres. Early in her career, Ms Traynor was a litigator in the UK where she was involved in high profile defamation cases.

Ms Traynor graduated from San Diego University with Bachelors in Political Science and Film and later undertook her postgraduate studies at City University London. She qualified as a lawyer in the United Kingdom in 1995. She has been working in Abu Dhabi for over seven years now and is fully conversant with the legal and regulatory landscape of the region.