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Below is a list with each secretary general of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), based on the organization's official publications. [1] [2] [3] [needs update] The secretary general is OPEC's chief executive officer.
The category includes articles about individuals who have served as the secretary general (or the acting secretary general) of OPEC. Pages in category "Secretaries general of OPEC" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
OPEC Conference delegates at Swissotel, Quito, Ecuador, December 2010. The OPEC Conference is the supreme authority of the organisation, and consists of delegations normally headed by the oil ministers of member countries. The chief executive of the organisation is the OPEC secretary general. The conference ordinarily meets at the Vienna ...
Rilwanu Lukman (26 August 1938 – 21 July 2014) was a Nigerian engineer who held several ministerial positions in the Nigerian Federal government before becoming Secretary General of OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) from 1 January 1995 to 31 December 2000.
In January 2022, he was unanimously appointed to a three-year term as OPEC Secretary-General. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Following the 5 July 2022 death of his predecessor, Nigerian politician Mohammed Barkindo , Al-Ghais served as the organization's interim leader ahead of his planned August 2022 start date.
On 9 January 1968, three of the then–most conservative Arab oil states – Kuwait, Libya, and Saudi Arabia – agreed at a conference in Beirut, Lebanon to found the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries, aiming to separate the production and sale of oil from politics in the wake of the halfhearted 1967 oil embargo in response to the Six-Day War.
He was also the longest-serving Secretary General of OPEC, holding the position in 1994 and then 2007–2016, a total of 10 years and 1 month. He is a citizen of Libya and resides in Austria. He is married with five children. [1] OPEC selected Nigeria's Mohammed Barkindo to succeed el-Badri as Secretary General, effective 1 August 2016. [2]
The office of secretary-general is rotated among the regional groups of the UN. Each region gets two or three consecutive terms as secretary-general. Candidates from that region are then disqualified in the next selection, and a new region gets its turn at the office. In 1976, China issued a symbolic veto against President of Austria Kurt Waldheim