Charif Souki

Tellurian

Chairman of the Board

Charif Souki serves as Chairman of Tellurian, which he co-founded with Martin Houston in February 2016. Previously, he founded Cheniere Energy in 1996 and served as Chairman of the Board of Directors, CEO, and President until December 2015. Before founding Cheniere, he had over 20 years of independent investment banking experience in the energy industry and specialized in financing for small capitalization companies with an emphasis on the oil and gas industry. Mr. Souki currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the American University of Beirut, as a member of the Advisory Board of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, and on the International Advisory Board for the Neurological Research Institute (NRI) at Texas Children’s Hospital. Mr. Souki holds a BA from Colgate University and an MBA from Columbia University.