Ali Kardor ( fa, علی کاردر, born 16 May 1954) is an Iranian oil executive, and the former managing director of the

National Iranian Oil Company The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC; fa, شرکت ملّی نفت ایران, Sherkat-e Melli-ye Naft-e Īrān) is a government-owned national oil and natural gas producer and distributor under the direction of the Ministry of Petroleum of Ir ...

(NIOC), from 2016 to 2018. Kardor joined NIOC in 1984. Kardor was appointed managing director of NIOC in June 2016, having previously served as deputy managing director for investment and finance.

Education

Kardor graduated with a M.S. in

financial management Financial management is the business function concerned with profitability, expenses, cash and credit, so that the "organization may have the means to carry out its objective as satisfactorily as possible;" the latter often defined as maximizin ...

from

Allameh Tabataba'i University Allameh Tabataba'i University (ATU; �ælɒːˈme tæbɒːtæbɒːˈʔiː fa, دانشگاه علامه طباطبائی, ''Danushgah-e 'lâmh-e Tâbatâbai'') is one of the largest and the leading specialized public university in humanities and ...

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

Career

Since Kardor has assumed management of the NIOC, it has raised oil production. Following the lifting of international trade restrictions in January 2016 – Kardor announced 4.05 million

barrels A barrel or cask is a hollow cylindrical container with a bulging center, longer than it is wide. They are traditionally made of wooden staves and bound by wooden or metal hoops. The word vat is often used for large containers for liquids, u ...

of crude oil per day (bpd) by March 2018. The

International Energy Agency The International Energy Agency (IEA) is a Paris-based autonomous intergovernmental organisation, established in 1974, that provides policy recommendations, analysis and data on the entire global energy sector, with a recent focus on curbing carb ...

(IEA) predicted that Iran will reach a total of 4.15 million bpd in 2022. Prior to his appointment as managing director of NIOC, Kardor held the following positions: * Finance and Administration Director at NIOC * Deputy Minister of Petroleum for Commercial Affairs * Member of the board of directors at the

National Iranian Gas Company The National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) was established in 1965 as one of the four principal company, companies affiliated to the Ministry of Petroleum of Iran, Ministry of Petroleum of the Islamic Republic of Iran with 25,000 million Iranian ...

* Member of the board of directors at Kala Naft, Tehran * Member of the Board of Director at Kala Naft, London

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kardor, Ali 1954 births Living people Iranian chief executives National Iranian Oil Company people Directors of the National Iranian Oil Company Allameh Tabataba'i University alumni