Renowned British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes has been confirmed as a guest speaker at the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (ADIPEC) event, organisers dmg events said in a statement.
The only man alive ever to have travelled around the Earth’s circumpolar surface will be offering senior oil and gas executives at ADIPEC ‘a unique perspective on business’.
Fiennes, described by The Guinness Book of Records as ‘the world’s greatest living explorer’, will be giving an exclusive ‘audience with’ speech to members of the Middle East Petroleum Club (MEPC).
Fiennes will speak on November 10, the second day of ADIPEC, at the MEPC theatre.
Having led 22 expeditions around the world, including both the North and South Poles, Mount Everest, and the North Face of the Eiger, Fiennes will draw analogies between nature’s sometimes harsh natural challenges and the very real day-to-day challenges in the business world, such as those being faced by the oil and gas industry today.
For more than 40 years, Fiennes, now 71, has lived through countless life-threatening experiences.
He is known for his remarkable endurance-trying feats, including being the world’s first to complete seven marathons in seven consecutive days across all seven continents, only a few months after suffering a massive heart attack; a three-day coma, and a double bypass surgery.
“I select my team members with great care and take on major expeditions only with those who will motivate themselves when extreme circumstances occur,” Fiennes says.
Fiennes, who was formerly Vice President of PR and Adviser for Western Europe to the Chairman of the Occidental Petroleum Corporation, believes the qualities every great leader should possess are tenacity, humility, an even temper, and realism.
