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View from the Top: Abdallah Jum'ah: Additional Reading

Thursday, November 13, 2008
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Abdallah Jum'ah, President and CEO, Saudi Aramco

 

Abdallah S. Jum'ah is president and chief executive officer of the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco), which manages the world’s largest proven oil reserves and is the world’s largest producer of crude oil and a leading player in the gas and refining businesses. He serves on Saudi Aramco’s Board of Directors and on the Saudi Arabian Supreme Council of Petroleum and Mineral Affairs, chaired by the King.

Jum'ah was born in al-Khobar in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province. He studied political science at the American University in Cairo and at the American University of Beirut, and later completed the Harvard Business School Program for Management Development at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His career in Saudi Aramco began in 1968. He was elected Aramco vice president of Power Systems in 1981, and was named senior vice president and later executive vice president of International Operations. In 1995, he was named president and chief executive officer. Since taking the helm of Saudi Aramco, Jum’ah has led the far-reaching expansion of its downstream and gas businesses and continued transforming the company into a fully integrated international oil and gas enterprise. Under his leadership, the company has also refocused its strategic direction, to maintain its prominent position as the world’s premier energy supplier.

Selected Articles

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The Other Face of Saudi Aramco. Forbes, 8/11/08
To engineer a huge expansion in the chemicals business, the oil giant has put a woman in charge.
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Saudi Aramco. MEED: Middle East Economic Digest, 7/11/08
The article profiles several top executives of Saudi Aramco in Saudi Arabia.
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Saudis put oil capacity rise on hold. Financial Times, 4/21/08
Abdullah Jum'ah, chief executive of Saudi Aramco, the kingdom's oil company, said in a closed-door meeting with oil ministers and executives in Rome that market signals were "imperfect" and that there were uncertainties created by the move away from oil, the world's worsening economic outlook and the recent turbulence in the financial markets, according to one person who took notes at the discussions.
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Saudi King Tries to Grow Modern Ideas in Desert. New York Times, 10/26/07
On a marshy peninsula 50 miles from this Red Sea port, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is staking $12.5 billion on a gargantuan bid to catch up with the West in science and technology.
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World's largest oil firm chief touts research to make fossil fuels 'cleaner'. Harvard Gazette, 2/8/07
The head of the world's largest oil company said that renewable sources can't meet the world's growing energy needs so research dollars should be aimed at both developing renewable sources and at making fossil fuels cleaner.
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