Shukri Mohammed Ghanem was a Libyan politician who was the General Secretary of the General People's Committee of Libya from June 2003 until March 2006 when,in the first major government re-shuffle in over a decade,he was replaced by his deputy,Baghdadi Mahmudi. Ghanem subsequently served as the Minister of Oil until 2011. On 29 April 2012,his body was found floating on the New Danube,Vienna.
AlíRodríguez Araque was a Venezuelan politician,lawyer,and diplomat. He was the leader of the political party Patria Para Todos and occupied various positions in the government of President Hugo Chávez,such as oil advisor,General Secretary of OPEC,President of Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA),Minister of External Relations and Ambassador to Cuba. He was appointed as Minister of Finance in June 2008. His last occupation was Ambassador of Venezuela in Cuba since 2014 until his death in 2018.
Ahmed Zaki Yamani was a Saudi Arabian politician who served as Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources under four Saudi monarchs from 1962 to 1986,and a minister in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) for 25 years.
Imbarek Shamekh is a Libyan politician and bureaucrat. He served as the Secretary-General of General People's Congress of Libya from 2009 to 2010. He previously served as Deputy Prime Minister from 2008 to 2009,and Prime Minister from 2000 to 2003.
Baghdadi Ali Mahmudi is a Libyan politician who was Secretary of the General People's Committee of Libya from 5 March 2006 to as late as 1 September 2011,when he acknowledged the collapse of the GPCO and the ascendance of the National Transitional Council as a result of the Libyan Civil War. He has a medical degree,specialising in obstetrics and gynecology,and had served as Deputy Prime Minister to Prime Minister Shukri Ghanem since 2003 at the time he was appointed to replace him. He was a part of Gaddafi's inner circle at least prior to his escape in mid-2011. He was arrested in Tunisia for illegal border entry and jailed for six months,although this was later overruled on appeal,however a Tunisian court decided to extradite Mahmoudi to Libya under a request from Libya's Transitional Council.
Thamir Abbas Ghadhban is an Iraqi civil servant and politician.
Rilwanu Lukman was a Nigerian engineer who held several ministerial positions in the Nigerian Federal government before becoming Secretary General of OPEC from 1 January 1995 to 31 December 2000. He died on 21 July 2014. On 18 December 2008,Lukman was appointed Minister of Petroleum Resources by Nigerian president Umaru Yar'Adua,holding office until March 2010.
Jorge Alfonso Alejandro del Castillo Gálvez is a Peruvian lawyer and politician. In his career,he has served in the now abolished Peruvian Chamber of Deputies between 1990 and 1992,in the unicameral Congress of the Republic for six non-consecutive terms,between 1995 and 2011 and again from 2016 to 2019,five of which are consecutive terms,and as Mayor of Lima and the District of Barranco during the 1980s.
The National Oil Corporation is the national oil company of Libya. It dominates Libya's oil industry,along with a number of smaller subsidiaries,which combined account for around 70% the country's oil output. Of NOC's subsidiaries,the largest oil producer is the Waha Oil Company (WOC),followed by the Arabian Gulf Oil Company (Agoco),Zueitina Oil Company (ZOC),and Sirte Oil Company (SOC).
Dr. Abd-al-Hafid Mahmud al-Zulaytini was a Libyan politician who served as Assistant Secretary of the General People's Committee of Libya prior to the Libyan Civil War.
Gholam Hossein Nozari is a conservative Iranian politician who served as oil minister from 2007 to 2009. He was nominated secretary general of the OPEC in June 2012.
Edmond Haxhinasto is an Albanian politician who was Deputy Prime Minister of Albania from 2011 to 2013.
Abdulrahman Ben Yezza is a Libyan businessman and politician who is the Oil Minister in the government of Abdurrahim El-Keib. Prior to the 2011 Libyan Civil War,Ben Yezza served as "chairman of the operator's management committee" for Italian oil company Eni. He also worked for Libya's National Oil Corporation during Libya's governance by Muammar Gaddafi,but he quit the company voluntarily due to reported differences with its then-leader Shokri Ghanem,a member of Gaddafi's inner circle. In 2014 the Libyan government has named Abdulrahman Ben Yezza as chairman of the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA). He temporarily replaced AmbdulMagid Breish who had to step out pending investigation into his role in the Gaddafi administration.
Abdulbari Al Arusi is a Libyan engineer and politician who served as oil and gas minister of Libya from 14 November 2012 until 22 January 2014.
Suhail Mohammed Faraj Al Mazroui is an Emirati businessman and politician,who has been serving as the minister of energy in the United Arab Emirates since March 2013.
Hossein Kazempour Ardebili was an Iranian diplomat and politician,serving as Iran's representative to OPEC from 1995 to 2008 and again from 2013 to his death in 2020. Previously,he served as the nation's commerce minister,as well as deputy foreign minister and deputy oil minister at various times in the 1980s. He served as the Iranian ambassador to Japan from 1990 to 1994. He died in 2020 due to a brain haemorrhage caused by COVID-19. Bloomberg News called Ardebili the "ultimate OPEC negotiator" who "defended Iran's oil interests through war and sanctions".
The 3rd GECF summit was a biennial Gas Exporting Countries Forum summit,an international relations conference attended by the heads of state or heads of government of most member states of the GECF. The summit was held in Tehran,Iran,the first time the city has hosted the summit. Iran assumed the chair of the GECF from Russia on 1 January 2014.
Mohammed Sanusi Barkindo was a Nigerian politician. From 1 August 2016 until his death,he was the Secretary General of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. He helped to create the OPEC+ alliance between OPEC members and other oil-producing countries.
Abdalla Hamdok Al-Kinani is a Sudanese public administrator who served as the 15th Prime Minister of Sudan from 2019 to October 2021,and again from November 2021 to 2 January 2022. Prior to his appointment,Hamdok served in numerous national and international administrative positions. From November 2011 to October 2018,he was deputy executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). UNECA staff described Hamdok as "[a] diplomat,a humble man and a brilliant and disciplined mind". In 2020,Hamdok was named among Bloomberg's 50 Most Influential figures of the year.
