Abdallah S. Jum'ah

Abdallah S. Jum'ah
President and CEO, Saudi Aramco
In office 1 January 1995 – 1 January 2009
Preceded by	Ali Al-Naimi
Succeeded by	Khalid A. Al-Falih
Personal details
Born	1941 (age 75–76)
Nationality	Saudi
Alma mater	Harvard University '76; American University of Beirut '68

Abdallah S. Jum'ah, (born 1941) is a prominent Saudi business executive and the former President and CEO of Saudi Aramco, a position he held from January 1995 to December 2008.

He serves as a director of The Saudi Investment Bank and has been a director of Halliburton since 15 July 2010.

Jum'ah was born in al-Khobar, a major city in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, in 1941. He studied political science at American University of Cairo as well as at the American University of Beirut, where he earned his B.A. in political science in 1968. He completed the HBS Executive Program in Management Development at Harvard University, while working for Saudi Aramco.

Jum'ah was awarded an honorary doctorate by Hankuk University, Seoul in April 2007.

After his graduation in 1968, Jum'ah joined Aramco (presently, Saudi Aramco), initially in the government affairs department and later in the public relations department as the general supervisor of publications. He was promoted to department manager in 1975.

He moved to Aramco's Power Systems department in 1977, where he began a series of leadership assignments and worked closely with the development of the Saudi Consolidated Electric Company (SCECO) for the Eastern Province - SCECO-East. He was appointed to his first executive position at Aramco in 1981 as vice president of the power systems division and concurrently served as the first Saudi Managing Director of SCECO-East.

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