Directors

Kamran Ahmed
Acting Managing Director
Kamran Ahmed is a graduate of Ithaca College, Cornel University, with 29 years’ experience in banking and oil and gas. He has worked with multinational financial institutions and oil and gas companies, including Shell, Mobil, Bankers Equity and Merrill Lynch.  In 2002 he joined Orient Petroleum International Inc and is now based in the UK as Director of Orient Petroleum (UK) Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of OPL.

Arif Kemal BSc (Hons), MSc, FPAGS
Chairman, Non-Executive Director

Arif Kemal has over 49 years’ experience in exploration, production and management of oil and gas resources. He has a BSc Hons in Geology and an MSc Petroleum Geology and attended a post-graduate training course in Petroleum Engineering from the Institut Français du Pétrole, France.  Mr Kemal is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the Houston Geological Society.

Mr Kemal is a member of the Company's Remuneration Committee.

Sir Antony Brian Baldry MP
Deputy Chairman, Non-Executive Director
Tony Baldry is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Banbury (North Oxfordshire). He has been an MP for nearly 30 years and held various ministerial posts between 1990 and 1997. These include Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Energy where, alongside John Wakeham, he oversaw the privatisation of the UK electricity industry. 
A practising Barrister, Tony is also a director of a number of public and private companies. Tony has a wealth of experience of giving strategic and financial advice to growing companies across a range of sectors, including natural resources.

Sir Antony is a member of the Company's Audit Committee.

Hasan Ali-Hashwani
Non-Executive Director
Hasan Hashwani has over 14 years’ international experience in the oil and gas industry. He has held various management positions during his career and serves on the board of several private companies. Mr Hashwani studied business administration at the University of Phoenix and has earned his EMBA from IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Mr Hashwani is the Chairman of the Company's Remuneration Committee and a member of the Company's Audit Committee.

Rustom Bejon Kanga FCA
Non-Executive Director

Rustom Kanga has over 28 years’ diverse experience in business and commerce. He has been involved in the upstream oil and gas industry since 1996 and has valuable experience in starting new ventures, acquisitions, divestitures and financing.  He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and serves on the board of several private companies.

Mr Kanga is Chairman of the Company's Audit Committee of and is a member of the Remuneration Committee.

Last revised November 2012