Adnan Shihab-Eldin

Senior Research Advisor

Dr Shihab-Eldin currently serves as senior advisor and consultant to a number of public and private institutions, organizations and companies. In 2005 he served as the Acting Secretary General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) where he also served as Director of Research, from August 2001 through March 2006. From March 1999 to August 2001 he served as Director of the Division for Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, Department of Technical Co-operation, at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria. Prior to joining the IAEA, from December 1991 to February 1999, he served as Director of the UNESCO Regional Office for Science and Technology (Cairo) and as the UNESCO Representative in Egypt, Sudan, and Yemen.

Dr Adnan Shihab-Eldin received a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1965, a M.Sc. degree in 1967, and Doctorate degree (Ph.D.) in Nuclear Engineering in 1970, all from the University of California at Berkeley, USA. Prior to his career with international organizations, Dr Shihab-Eldin taught, lectured on, undertaken and directed research in the physical and engineering sciences as well as energy economics and technology, at a number of universities and research centers in Kuwait, the United States and Europe, including Kuwait University, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the University of California at Berkeley, the European Nuclear Research Center in Geneva, Switzerland, and at the Energy and Environment Policy Center at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. From 1976 to 1986 he was the Director General of the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research.

Dr Shihab-Eldin has published extensively and is a regular lecturer and invited speaker at many international and regional meetings, covering many fields, including Energy Policy, Economics, Technology and the Environment; Oil Markets; Policy, Management and Development of Science & Technology in Developing Countries; Higher Education Systems, and other related fields.

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