• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
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Ibrahim Al-Muhanna

Ministry of Energy, Saudi Arabia

Consultant & Advisor to Saudi Oil Ministry

Ibrahim A. Al-Muhanna has been the Adviser to the Minister of Energy since 1989. He was recently appointed as the Vice Chairman of the World Energy Council and serves as the Chairperson of Wattan Investment Company. Dr. Al-Muhanna also established his own consultant and research company in 2017. He has written many studies and articles, as well as a book, written in Arabic, on the transformation of the world system since the collapse of the Soviet Union. He is currently working on two more books. Before his current role, Dr. Al-Muhanna was a professor at King Saud University in Riyadh. Dr. Al-Muhanna received his PhD from the School of International Services at The American University in Washington, DC.

Sessions With Ibrahim Al-Muhanna

Tuesday, 12 March

  • 07:30am - 08:40am (CST) / -

    Realigning the Global Oil Order
    Panel Oil

    Russia and Saudi Arabia, two of the world’s three largest oil producers, formed an unprecedented alliance (the Vienna Alliance) in 2016 that allowed them to lead OPEC and non-OPEC producers to jointly agree to coordinated supply. The cooperation has continued, with the Alliance agreeing in December to cut supply again. What brought these two oil superpowers together after decades of failed attempts at joint supply management? What might sustain this alliance, and what could eventually pull it apart?