Special lecture with His Excellency Khaled Mahfoodh Abdulla Bahah
09:30 - 09:30, 09 November 2016
His Excellency Khaled Mahfoodh Abdulla Bahah, (former) Vice President and Prime Minister of Yemen will be joining us at the School.
This is an internal event for members of the University of Oxford and alumni only. Register to attend here.
Biography
Khaled Bahah was appointed Vice President of Yemen on April 13, 2015 till April 3, 2016 by President Abd-Rabbuh Mansur Hadi. He held this office in addition to that of Prime Minister, a position to which he was appointed on October 13, 2014.
Prior to his appointment as PM, His Excellency was serving as Yemen’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, a position he had held since June 11, 2014, following an interim three-month appointment as Minister of Oil and Minerals in March of that year.
From January, 2009 until March, 2014 he served for five years as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Yemen to Canada. During his term in Ottawa, he was also elected President of the Ottawa Diplomatic Association.
Preceding this diplomatic appointment he served as Minister of Oil and Minerals for the Republic of Yemen, from February, 2006 – May, 2008. His leadership roles included Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Yemen Liquefied Natural Gas Project with investments of over $ 4 Billion US, the Safer Exploration and Production Petroleum Company and the Yemen General Corporation for Oil and Gas, which includes the Aden Refinery Company, the Yemen Refinery Company, the Yemen Oil Company, the Yemen Investment Oil Company, and the Petroleum Training Centre.
His Excellency was also a Board Member for the General Investment Authority; the Higher Council of Economic and Oil Affairs and the Export Committee.
From 2005-2006 he was Project Office Manager of the Arabia-Yemen Cement Company.
Upon graduation in 1992, he joined Canadian Nexen Petroleum Yemen, holding senior positions in Planning, Joint Ventures, Human Resources and General accounting.
Khaled Bahah obtained a Masters of Commerce in Administration, Banking and Finance at Pune University, India, in 1992 after first completing his Bachelor of Commerce in Advanced Accounting and Auditing.
He is married and has one son.