Mr. Farid Ghezali is the Secretary General of the African Petroleum Producers’ Organization (APPO). He is a professional with 33 years of rich and extensive experience, both in business or market analysis, requirements gathering, business planning, budgeting, resource and operations management and process improvement. With a degree in LNG chemical engineering from the Algerian Petroleum Institute (IAP), he has held several positions of responsibility within Sonatrach in Algeria: Consulting Director, Vice-President for Strategy, senior manager for marketing activity. He also worked at In Salah Gas Services in The Hague, the Netherlands, as Director of Operations.