List of secretaries general of OPEC

Below is a list with each secretary general of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), based on the organization's official publications.^{[needs update]} The secretary general is OPEC's chief executive officer.

List of OPEC secretaries general
No.	Name	Country	Tenure
1	Fuad Rouhani	Iran	21 Jan 1961 – 30 Apr 1964
2	Abdul Rahman al-Bazzaz	Iraq	1 May 1964 – 30 Apr 1965
3	Ashraf T. Lutfi	Kuwait	1 May 1965 – 31 Dec 1966
4	Mohammad Saleh Joukhdar	Saudi Arabia	1 Jan 1967 – 31 Dec 1967
5	Francisco R. Parra	Venezuela	1 Jan 1968 – 31 Dec 1968
6	Elrich Sanger	Indonesia	1 Jan 1969 – 31 Dec 1969
7	Omar el-Badri	Libya	1 Jan 1970 – 31 Dec 1970
8	Nadim al-Pachachi	Iraq	1 Jan 1971 – 31 Dec 1972
9	Abderrahman Khène	Algeria	1 Jan 1973 – 31 Dec 1974
10	M.O. Feyide	Nigeria	1 Jan 1975 – 31 Dec 1976
11	Ali M. Jaidah	Qatar	1 Jan 1977 – 31 Dec 1978
12	René G. Ortiz	Ecuador	1 Jan 1979 – 30 Jun 1981
13	Marc Saturnin Nan Nguema	Gabon	1 Jul 1981 – 30 Jun 1983
14	Mana Al Otaiba	United Arab Emirates	19 Jul 1983 – 31 Dec 1983
15	Kamel Hassan Maghur	Libya	1 Jan 1984 – 31 Oct 1984
16	Subroto	Indonesia	31 Oct 1984 – 9 Dec 1985
17	Arturo Hernández Grisanti	Venezuela	1 Jan 1986 – 30 Jun 1986
18	Rilwanu Lukman	Nigeria	1 Jul 1986 – 30 Jun 1988
19	Subroto	Indonesia	1 Jul 1988 – 30 Jun 1994
20	Abdallah Salem el-Badri	Libya	1 Jul 1994 – 31 Dec 1994
21	Rilwanu Lukman	Nigeria	1 Jan 1995 – 31 Dec 2000
22	Alí Rodríguez Araque	Venezuela	1 Jan 2001 – 30 Jun 2002
23	Álvaro Silva Calderón	Venezuela	1 Jul 2002 – 31 Dec 2003
24	Purnomo Yusgiantoro	Indonesia	1 Jan 2004 – 31 Dec 2004
25	Ahmed Al-Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah	Kuwait	1 Jan 2005 – 31 Dec 2005
26	Edmund Daukoru	Nigeria	1 Jan 2006 – 31 Dec 2006
27	Abdallah Salem el-Badri	Libya	1 Jan 2007 – 31 Jul 2016
28	Mohammed Barkindo	Nigeria	1 Aug 2016 – 5 Jul 2022
29	Haitham al-Ghais	Kuwait	5 Jul 2022 –