Abdallah S. Jum'ah was the VP of Saudi Aramco

Saudi Aramco

Saudi Aramco , officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, is the national oil company of Saudi Arabia.Saudi Aramco is the world's largest and most valuable privately-held company, with estimates of its value in 2011 to be $7 trillion USD.Saudi Aramco has both the largest proven crude oil reserves,...

, the world's largest oil company until the end of 2008. In 1995, he succeeded Ali Al-Naimi

Ali Al-Naimi

Ali bin Ibrahim Al-Naimi is the Saudi Arabian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources. Al-Naimi joined Saudi Aramco as a young man and was educated in the United States at Lehigh University under the company's educational program. He later earned his Master's Degree in Geology at Stanford...

, the first Saudi to ever become the president of the Saudi newly government acquired, Aramco. He joined the company in 1968 and was appointed V-president in November 1995. Mr. Jum'ah is a member of the Saudi Aramco Board of Directors and the Saudi Supreme Council of Petroleum and Mineral Affairs. He is a graduate of the American University of Beirut

American University of Beirut

The American University of Beirut is a private, independent university in Beirut, Lebanon. It was founded as the Syrian Protestant College by American missionaries in 1866...

 and completed the Program for Management Development at Harvard University in 1976. Jum'ah was awarded an honorary doctorate by Hankuk University, Seoul

Seoul

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in April 2007.

Articles by Abdallah S. Jum'ah

World Energy Magazine - Global Energy Security and Market Conditions: The Promise of the Asia-Pacific Region

World Energy Magazine - Rising to the Challenge: Securing the Energy Future