Kamel Maghur

15th Secretary General of OPEC
(as President of OPEC)In office
1 January 1984 – 31 October 1984Preceded byMana Al OtaibaSucceeded bySubrotoMinister of Foreign AffairsIn office
3 March 1986 – 3 March 1987Preceded byAli TrekiSucceeded byJadallah Azzuz at-TalhiMinister of OilIn office
3 March 1982 – 3 March 1986Preceded byAbd al-Salam al-ZaqarSucceeded by? Personal detailsBorn(1935-01-01)1 January 1935
Dahra, Tripoli, Italian LibyaDied5 January 2002(2002-01-05) (aged 67)

Kamel Hassan Maghur (Arabic: كامل حسن المقهور; 1 January 1935 – 5 January 2002) was a Libyan lawyer, diplomat, and writer. He also held various cabinet posts.^[1]

Biography

Maghur was born in Dahra, Tripoli, Italian Libya in 1935.^[2] He became a lawyer and subsequently a judge in Libya after completing law school in Cairo. He served in various diplomatic and international legal postings, including service as Libya's ambassador to the United Nations, Canada, France and China. In 1972 he became minister for petroleum and in 1984 served as OPEC's chief. In 1986–1987, he was Libya's minister for foreign affairs and in 1989 returned to private law practice in Tripoli. In the late 1990s he served as Libya's lawyer handling sanctions and charges associated with the Lockerbie bombing.

Maghur published eight books of short stories between the 1950s and 2000. He and his wife Suhir Elgheryani had seven children.

References

External links

• Official website
• Media related to Kamel Maghur at Wikimedia Commons