His 2025 Al-Attiyah Award Excellency Haitham Al Ghais, OPEC Secretary General, received the prestigious 2025 Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah Lifetime Achievement Award, considered one of the highest honors in the global energy sector, for “advancing international energy policy and diplomacy” at the historic and solemn evening of the Al-Attiyah Foundation’s annual gala in Doha, Qatar.
2025 Al-Attiyah Award Al Ghais expressed his heartfelt gratitude to the Al-Attiyah Foundation for this important and prestigious honour, emphasizing that the award provides meaningful and appropriate recognition of OPEC’s continued, active, and vital role in ensuring global energy security, stabilizing markets, and promoting constructive international dialogue over the decades.
He also took this opportunity to commend the tireless efforts, collective wisdom, and political will of all OPEC Member States, who, over the organization’s glorious and extraordinary history of 65 years, have made invaluable contributions to maintaining balance in global oil markets, encouraging investment, and accelerating global economic growth, while adhering to the principles of international cooperation, peaceful diplomacy, transparency, and mutual respect, even in diff
OPEC has faced many ups and downs along the years, but it has always stayed committed to its essential ideals. Furthermore, His Excellency Al Ghais underlined his deep and heartfelt appreciation for the steadfast support, tireless labor, and selfless dedication of the dedicated, hardworking, and exceptional multinational team of the OPEC Secretariat, which comprises skilled individuals from over 40 countries around the world.
Without their combined efforts, knowledge, unity, and unshakable commitment, the organization’s remarkable journey, policy successes, and global recognition would not have been possible. This award not only highlights His Excellency Al Ghais’s personal leadership, vision, and lifelong contribution to the energy sector, but it also serves as a powerful symbol of OPEC’s collective achievement, shared legacy, and enduring relevance, and is a living testimony to how sustained global cooperation, continuous dialogue, and collective action can play a fundamental and essential role in shaping and sustaining energy security, market stability, equitable economic growth
This 2025 Al-Attiyah Award event is not only a proud celebration of past accomplishments, but it also lays a solid foundation for the future of energy diplomacy and global governance, in which OPEC will continue to play a leading role, address new challenges, navigate the complexities of the energy transition, embrace technological advancements, and protect and advance the interests of its member countries, all while playing a vital and adaptable role in global economic well-being.
