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List of OPEC secretaries general No. Name Country Tenure 1: Fuad Rouhani [A] Iran [B] 21 Jan 1961 – 30 Apr 1964 2: Abdul Rahman al-Bazzaz [A] Iraq [B] 1 May 1964 – 30 Apr 1965 3: Ashraf T. Lutfi Kuwait [B] 1 May 1965 – 31 Dec 1966 4: Mohammad Saleh Joukhdar Saudi Arabia [B] 1 Jan 1967 – 31 Dec 1967 5: Francisco R. Parra Venezuela [B]
Head of state annual salary Head of government annual salary Head of state annual salary (USD from 2019 IMF exchange rate) Head of government annual salary (USD from 2019 IMF exchange rate) Head of state salary divided by 2020 GDP per capita Head of government salary divided by 2020 GDP per capita Reference Afghanistan ؋2,745,000
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.
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 ...
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]
Among the beneficiaries of the current state of the oil market are U.S. motorists, who have seen gasoline prices fall to their lowest in 2 1/2 years to near $3 a gallon.
In practice, the Secretary-General has more power than this; member governments consult the secretary-general on nominations, and the secretary-general has also at times submitted nominations of his own. [2] Formally, the secretary-general is given the same rank as a high commissioner or ambassador. However, in practice, their rank is ...