Adnan Shihab El Din

Research Director

OPEC

Day 2 Session 3

Dr Shihab-Eldin joined the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) as Director of the Research Division in August 2001. 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 and as the UNESCO representative in Egypt, Sudan, and Yemen.

Dr Adnan Shihab-Eldin, a Kuwaiti citizen, was born in 1943. He received a BSc degree in Electrical Engineering in 1965, a MSc degree in 1967, and Doctorate degree (PhD) in Nuclear Engineering in 1970, all from the University of California at Berkeley, USA. Dr Shihab-Eldin has taught and directed research in the physical and engineering sciences, as well as the applied fields of energy technology and the environment, at a number of universities and research

centres in Kuwait, the United States and Europe.