Below is a list with each secretary general of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), based on the organization's official publications.[1][2][3][needs update] The secretary general is OPEC's chief executive officer.
No. | Name | Country | Tenure |
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1 | Fuad Rouhani[upper-alpha 1] | ![]() | 21 Jan 1961 – 30 Apr 1964 |
2 | Abdul Rahman al-Bazzaz[upper-alpha 1] | ![]() | 1 May 1964 – 30 Apr 1965 |
3 | Ashraf T. Lutfi | ![]() | 1 May 1965 – 31 Dec 1966 |
4 | Mohammad Saleh Joukhdar | ![]() | 1 Jan 1967 – 31 Dec 1967 |
5 | Francisco R. Parra | ![]() | 1 Jan 1968 – 31 Dec 1968 |
6 | Elrich Sanger | ![]() | 1 Jan 1969 – 31 Dec 1969 |
7 | Omar el-Badri | ![]() | 1 Jan 1970 – 31 Dec 1970 |
8 | Nadim al-Pachachi | ![]() | 1 Jan 1971 – 31 Dec 1972 |
9 | Abderrahman Khène | ![]() | 1 Jan 1973 – 31 Dec 1974 |
10 | M.O. Feyide | ![]() | 1 Jan 1975 – 31 Dec 1976 |
11 | Ali M. Jaidah | ![]() | 1 Jan 1977 – 31 Dec 1978 |
12 | René G. Ortiz | ![]() | 1 Jan 1979 – 30 Jun 1981 |
13 | Marc Saturnin Nan Nguema | ![]() | 1 Jul 1981 – 30 Jun 1983 |
14 | Mana Al Otaiba[upper-alpha 3] | ![]() | 19 Jul 1983 – 31 Dec 1983 |
15 | Kamel Hassan Maghur[upper-alpha 3] | ![]() | 1 Jan 1984 – 31 Oct 1984 |
16 | Subroto[upper-alpha 3] | ![]() | 31 Oct 1984 – 9 Dec 1985 |
17 | Arturo Hernández Grisanti[upper-alpha 3] | ![]() | 1 Jan 1986 – 30 Jun 1986 |
18 | Rilwanu Lukman[upper-alpha 3] | ![]() | 1 Jul 1986 – 30 Jun 1988 |
19 | Subroto | ![]() | 1 Jul 1988 – 30 Jun 1994 |
20 | Abdallah Salem el-Badri | ![]() | 1 Jul 1994 – 31 Dec 1994 |
21 | Rilwanu Lukman | ![]() | 1 Jan 1995 – 31 Dec 2000 |
22 | Alí Rodríguez Araque | ![]() | 1 Jan 2001 – 30 Jun 2002 |
23 | Álvaro Silva Calderón | ![]() | 1 Jul 2002 – 31 Dec 2003 |
24 | Purnomo Yusgiantoro | ![]() | 1 Jan 2004 – 31 Dec 2004 |
25 | Ahmed Al-Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah | ![]() | 1 Jan 2005 – 31 Dec 2005 |
26 | Edmund Daukoru | ![]() | 1 Jan 2006 – 31 Dec 2006 |
27 | Abdallah Salem el-Badri | ![]() ![]() | 1 Jan 2007 – 31 Jul 2016 |
28 | Mohammed Barkindo[upper-alpha 4] | ![]() | 1 Aug 2016 – 5 Jul 2022 |
29 | Haitham al-Ghais | ![]() |
5 Jul 2022 – |
- Due to political disagreements over the Secretary General position during the Iran–Iraq War, OPEC between mid-1983 and mid-1988 was led by Presidents with a mandate to supervise the Secretariat.