List of Secretaries General of OPEC

Below is a list with each Secretary General of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

List of OPEC Secretaries General
NameCountryTenure
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  Libya 1 Jan 2007 – 31 Jul 2016
  1. 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.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 The first five Secretaries General were chosen to represent OPEC's founding countries in alphabetical order.
  3. 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.

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