Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani

Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani chairs the board of Dubai-headquartered and Oslo-listed RAK Petroleum with indirect interests in 18 exploration and production blocks in the Middle East and North and West Africa. With an impressive number of executive roles under his belt, Mossavar-Rahmani serves concurrently as the executive chairman of Norwegian oil company DNO, 40% owned by RAK Petroleum, and as chairman of Foxtrot International, 33% owned by RAK Petroleum, a private exploration and production firm active in Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast). He is the founder and first chief executive of Houston-based Apache International. Outside of the industry, Mossavar-Rahmani is involved in philanthropy, education and the arts. He is a Trustee of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art where is also chairman of the Visiting Committee on Islamic Art. He has published more than ten books and numerous articles on global energy markets. His contributions to and support for education are recognised in the naming of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard University and the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University.