商品簡介
Ali Al-Naimi is Saudi oil minister - and OPEC kingpin - a position he has held for 20 years. As global oil's central banker, Al-Naimi moves markets with the briefest of utterances. But it hasn't always been that way.
Al-Naimi was born into abject poverty as a nomadic Bedouin in the 1930s, just as US companies were discovering vast quantities of oil under the baking Arabian deserts. From his first job as a shepherd boy, aged four, to his appointment to one of the most powerful political and economic jobs in the world, Out of the Desert charts Al-Naimi's extraordinary rise to power.
Described by Alan Greenspan as 'the most powerful man you've never heard of', Al-Naimi's incredible journey proves that anyone can make it - even a poor Bedouin shepherd boy. This is his exclusive inside story of power, politics and oil.
作者簡介
His Excellency Ali Ibrahim Al-Naimi is Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a post he has held since 1995. He is a member of the Cabinet of the Council of Ministers and the Supreme Economic Council. From 1995 until 2015, he was Chairman of the Kingdom's national oil company, Saudi Aramco. He is also Chairman of the Saudi Geological Society and of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. He is routinely named on international power lists, including the Time World's 100 Most Influential People and The Times's GulfPower25.
