Full Name
H.E. Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo
Job Title
Secretary General
Company
OPEC
Speaker Bio
H.E. Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo of Nigeria began his tenure as Secretary-General of OPEC on August 1, 2016.

Over the years he also worked in several key roles at OPEC. In 1986, he was appointed to Nigeria’s delegation to OPEC, and from 1993-08, served as Nigeria’s National Representative on the Organization’s Economic Commission Board. In 2006, he was Acting OPEC Secretary-General, and represented Nigeria on OPEC’s board of governors from 2009-10.

From 2009-10, he was Group Managing Director and CEO of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. (NNPC). Previous to that, he served as Deputy Managing Director of Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas. Earlier in his career, he was Special Advisor to former Minister of Petroleum Resources and OPEC Secretary-General, H.E. Dr Rilwanu Lukman KBE.

Mr Barkindo has also been leader of Nigeria’s technical delegation to the UN climate change negotiations since 1991. He served as chair of the Group of 77 and China at the UNFCCC and was elected to serve three terms as Vice President of the Conference of the Parties – COP13 (Bali, Indonesia), COP14 (Poznan, Poland) and COP15 (Copenhagen, Denmark), where he chaired the opening session.

Since taking office as Secretary-General, he remains a leading voice in the long-standing quest for more OPEC and non-OPEC cooperation for stable oil markets on a sustainable basis.
H.E. Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo