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Title: Chief Executive Officer Company: Saudi Aramco Industry: Oil & Gas

The most profitable company ever created is run not by a courtier but by a petroleum engineer who joined its fields in 1982 and never left. Amin Nasser commands Saudi Aramco’ s nine million daily barrels with an operator’ s calm and a heretic’ s candour, telling Davos and Houston alike what they rarely want to hear, that the energy transition is failing on its own arithmetic and the world needs every molecule while it builds what comes next. The bluntness lands because the operations back it up, industry-leading costs, colossal dividends that bankroll a kingdom’ s transformation and expanding bets on chemicals, hydrogen and AI-optimised production. He steered the company through drone strikes on its facilities and history’ s largest stock listing. Little at Aramco has ever rattled him visibly.

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