JEF in the Media

Dr Adnan Shihab-Eldin, Former Acting Secretary General & Director of Research of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), is currently serving as Senior Advisor and Consultant to a number of public and private and international institutions, organizations and companies. He also serves as board member of Kuwait Foundation for Advancement of Sciences, Trustee of the American University. 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, carried out 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. He has published extensively and is a regular lecturer and invited speaker at many international and regional meetings.