2005 - OPEC

complex and delicate task of directing the work of OPEC’s Secretariat in shaping the policies
of the Organization and its oil exporting MCs.“
Dr Shihab-Eldin joined OPEC’s Vienna-based Secretariat as Director of its Research Division in
2001, and this year has been Acting for the Secretary General. In 1999–2001, he was Direc-
tor of the Division for Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, Department of Technical Cooperation,
at the International Atomic Energy Agency, and, in 1991–99, Director of UNESCO’s Regional
Office for Science and Technology, as well as UNESCO’s Representative in Egypt, Sudan and
Yemen. An earlier post he held for ten years was Director General of the Kuwait Institute
for Scientific Research. Dr Shihab-Eldin, born in 1943 and a Kuwaiti physicist and nuclear
engineer, is a member of numerous professional associations and has served as a board
member of, and advisor to, many international organisations, foundations and companies
around the world.
The Scientific Committee of the Pio Manzù International Research Centre, whose members are
leading international scientists, selected him for the award because of his “commitment to
encouraging a cooperative approach and to finding solutions of mutual benefit and of wide
value to the international community to successfully meet future energy needs.” The Centre,
whose General Secretariat is in Verucchio, Italy, is a non-governmental organization in general
consultative status with the United Nations. It has been operating since 1969 as an institute
for the in-depth study of the main economic and scientific aspects of the relationship between
man and the environment
Joint press release of the 2nd Ministerial Meeting of the EU-OPEC Energy
Dialogue
Vienna, Austria, 2 December 2005
The second meeting of the EU-OPEC Energy Dialogue took place at the OPEC Headquarters
in Vienna, Austria, today. The participants from OPEC were: Sheikh Ahmad Fahad Al-Ahmad
Al-Sabah, Minister of Energy of Kuwait and President of the OPEC Conference; Dr Edmund M
Daukoru, Minister of State for Petroleum of Nigeria and Alternate President of the OPEC Con-
ference; and Dr Adnan Shihab-Eldin, Acting for the OPEC Secretary General. The participants
from the EU were: Malcolm Wicks, Minister for Energy of the United Kingdom and President of
the EU Council; Dr Martin Bartenstein, Minister of Economy and Labour of Austria; and Andris
Piebalgs, European Commissioner for Energy. The participants reflected upon the good progress
made with the EU-OPEC Energy Dialogue following the first meeting held at a ministerial level in
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