List of Secretaries General of OPEC
Below is a list with each Secretary General of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
Name | Country | Tenure |
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Fuad Rouhani[upper-alpha 1] | Iran[upper-alpha 2] | 21 Jan 1961 – 30 Apr 1964 |
Abdul Rahman al-Bazzaz[upper-alpha 1] | Iraq[upper-alpha 2] | 1 May 1964 – 30 Apr 1965 |
Ashraf T. Lutfi | Kuwait[upper-alpha 2] | 1 May 1965 – 31 Dec 1966 |
Mohammad Saleh Joukhdar | Saudi Arabia[upper-alpha 2] | 1 Jan 1967 – 31 Dec 1967 |
Francisco R. Parra | Venezuela[upper-alpha 2] | 1 Jan 1968 – 31 Dec 1968 |
Elrich Sanger | Indonesia | 1 Jan 1969 – 31 Dec 1969 |
Omar el-Badri | Libya | 1 Jan 1970 – 31 Dec 1970 |
Nadim al-Pachachi | United Arab Emirates | 1 Jan 1971 – 31 Dec 1972 |
Abderrahman Khène | Algeria | 1 Jan 1973 – 31 Dec 1974 |
M.O. Feyide | Nigeria | 1 Jan 1975 – 31 Dec 1976 |
Ali M. Jaidah | Qatar | 1 Jan 1977 – 31 Dec 1978 |
René G. Ortiz | Ecuador | 1 Jan 1979 – 30 Jun 1981 |
Marc Saturnin Nan Nguema | Gabon | 1 Jul 1981 – 30 Jun 1983 |
Mana Al Otaiba[upper-alpha 3] | United Arab Emirates | 19 Jul 1983 – 31 Dec 1983 |
Kamal Hassan Maghur[upper-alpha 3] | Libya | 1 Jan 1984 – 31 Oct 1984 |
Subroto[upper-alpha 3] | Indonesia | 31 Oct 1984 – 9 Dec 1985 |
Arturo Hernández Grisanti[upper-alpha 3] | Venezuela | 1 Jan 1986 – 30 Jun 1986 |
Alhaji Rilwanu Lukman[upper-alpha 3] | Nigeria | 1 Jul 1986 – 30 Jun 1988 |
Subroto | Indonesia | 1 Jul 1988 – 30 Jun 1994 |
Abdallah Salem el-Badri | Libya | 1 Jul 1994 – 31 Dec 1994 |
Alhaji Rilwanu Lukman | Nigeria | 1 Jan 1995 – 31 Dec 2000 |
Alí Rodríguez Araque | Venezuela | 1 Jan 2001 – 30 Jun 2002 |
Álvaro Silva Calderón | Venezuela | 1 Jul 2002 – 31 Dec 2003 |
Purnomo Yusgiantoro | Indonesia | 1 Jan 2004 – 31 Dec 2004 |
Ahmed Al-Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah | Kuwait | 1 Jan 2005 – 31 Dec 2005 |
Edmund Daukoru | Nigeria | 1 Jan 2006 – 31 Dec 2006 |
Abdallah Salem el-Badri | Libya | 1 Jan 2007 – 31 Jul 2016 |
- 1 2 The first two Secretaries General were Chairs of the Board of Governors in OPEC, and ex-officio Secretaries General. The functions of the two positions were separated prior to the appointment of Secretary General Lutfi, in May 1965.
- 1 2 3 4 5 The first five Secretaries General were chosen to represent OPEC's founding countries in alphabetical order.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Due to political disagreements over the Secretary General position during the Iran–Iraq War, OPEC between mid-1983 and mid-1988 was led by Presidents with a mandate to supervise the Secretariat.
Sources
- "Secretaries General of OPEC 1961–2008" (PDF). OPEC. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
- "OPEC 168th Meeting concludes". OPEC (Press release). 4 December 2015. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
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