Ahmed Zaki Yamani (born in 1930), former Saudi Arabian oil minister
Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabian politician and petroleum and mineral minister
The firm had watched intensely how then Saudi Petroleum Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani had wrestled over new ways to price Saudi Arabia’s oil as he cruised the Mediterranean on his yacht during August 1985.
Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed | Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah | Ahmed Mazhar | Mona Zaki | Ahmed Mohamed Islam | Ahmed Chalabi | Yahya Ould Ahmed El Waghef | Sohail Ahmed | Mahmoud Ahmed | Anna Molka Ahmed | Ahmed Omar Abu Ali | Ahmed Ben Bella | Ruhal Ahmed | Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya | Fayza Ahmed | Fakhruddin Ahmed | Ahmed Zaki Yamani | Ahmed Saad Osman | Ahmed Ould Daddah | Ahmed Moor | Ahmed Johnson | Ahmed III | Ahmed Aboutaleb | Riz Ahmed | Muzaffar Ahmed | Ishfaq Ahmed | Hussain Rasheed Ahmed | Aziz Ahmed Khan | Ahmed Tidiane Souaré | Ahmed Shawqi |
On 21 December 1975, Ahmed Zaki Yamani and the other oil ministers of the members of OPEC were taken hostage by a six-person team led by terrorist Carlos the Jackal (which included Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann and Hans-Joachim Klein), in Vienna, Austria, where the ministers were attending a meeting at the OPEC headquarters.