• CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

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, 10 March

  • 07:30am - 08:40am (CST) / -

    Middle East Oil & Politics: After Abqaiq & Suleimani

    Geopolitics/Policy/Regulatory Markets

    Decades-old assumptions about the political and economic future of the Middle East have been scrambled by surging non-OPEC oil supply and the recent, growing use of super-accurate drones and missiles to attack oil facilities and political opponents. What is the outlook for the region, where foreign powers continue to be involved militarily and politically in proxy wars and where disputes defy resolution? How will oil-exporting nations, who are members of OPEC and the Vienna Alliance, face a future of political uncertainty, stiff competition, shrinking market share, and price pressure?