Chakib khelil biography

Early life and education.
Chakib Khelil is an Algerian political figure who served in the government of Algeria as Minister of Energy and Mines from 1999 to 2010.
Chakib Khelil.

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Francis Ghilès
Senior Researcher CIDOB

June 1, 2010 / Opinión CIDOB, n.º 72

Abdelaziz Bouteflika sacked one of his closest allies in government since he became president 11 years ago last week. Dr Chakib Khelil has run Energy and Mines, the most important department of state – it accounts for 98% of the country’s export income and has allowed Algeria to amass hard currency reserves of $150bn, the highest figure in its history. In a game of musical chairs which reflects the apparent clan warfare which outwardly characterises politics among the country’s elite and the ever shifting balance of influence between the president’s men and those of General Tewfik Mediène who runs the key Département du Renseignement et de Sécurité (DRS), Yazid Zerhouni, was switched from the ministry of the interior which he has run since 1999 to a new post of vice prime minister whose prerogatives are, as yet, not defined while the minister of privatisation, Abdelhamid Temmar takes charge of a new portfolio in charge of prospective thinking about the economic future of North Africa’s largest coun

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Algerian army’s hard line tactics against thousands of people claiming to be treated as citizens risks destroying its historic legitimacy. The senior army commands have hijacked the judicial system, forcing the police to harass without mercy thousands of NGOs and civil society activists and often take them to court, alleging they are destroying national unity. The generals might succeed in imposing presidential elections in December but they will not help stabilise the country. Nor will it allow trust to return.

For nine months now, hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions of Algerians have been taking to the streets of towns and villages on Friday each week in Africa’s largest country. The sociologist Fatma Oussedik sums up the situation as follows: the Algerian people liberated themselves in 1962, today they aspire to become actors of their own history, in other words citizens. This massive invasion of the streets and squares in so many cities offers a stinging rebuke to those who insisted, within the circles of power in Algiers and in many European capitals that

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Chakib Khelil

Algerian political figure (born 1939)

Chakib Khelil
Chakib Khelil, May 2009
Born	(1939-08-08) 8 August 1939 (age 85) Oujda, Morocco
Occupation(s)	former Minister of Energy and Mines

Chakib Khelil (Arabic: شكيب خليل; born 8 August 1939) is an Algerian political figure who served in the government of Algeria as Minister of Energy and Mines from 1999 to 2010.

Early life and education

Khelil was born on 8 August 1939 in Oujda, Morocco.^[1] He received a bachelor and master degrees in mining and petroleum engineering from Ohio State University in 1964 and 1965, respectively. He also obtained a doctorate in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University in 1968.^[1]

Career

After working in the United States for a few years with Shell, Phillips Petroleum and D.R. McCord & Associates, Khelil joined Sonatrach in 1971 as head of its reservoir engineering department while being president of Alcore, a joint venture between Corelaboratories and Sonatrach. Then he became technical adviser in the pr