Trainings Capacity:

• physical and engineering sciences
• applied fields of energy technology and the environment

Work Experience:

• Positions at OPEC:

  Former General Secretary of OPEC
  Director of the Research Division of OPEC

• Director of the Division for Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, the Department of Technical Co-operation at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

• Director of the UNESCO Regional Office for Science and Technology

• UNESCO Representative in Egypt, Sudan and Yemen

Educational background:

• B.Sc. in electrical engineering, University of California, Berkeley
  
• M.Sc. in nuclear engineering, University of California, Berkeley
• Ph.D.  in nuclear engineering, University of California, Berkeley