Meshack Otokiti FEYIDE,

Engineer, Consultant, Administrator

mining engineer, petroleum consultant, born March 31, 1926, Ipele, Owo, Ondo State; married, has children; Education: Government College, Ibadan, 1940-45, Camborne School of Mines; Cornwall, England, 1950-53, Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of Lon don, 1959-60; appointed Petroleum Engineer, Ministry of Mines and Power; Chief Petroleum Engineer, Ministry of Mines and Power, 1964-70; Director of Petroleum Resources, 1970-75; Secretary-General, Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Coun tries (OPEC), 1975-76; Chief Executive, Petroleum Inspectorate, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), 1977-78, Petroleum Consultant, since 1978; Managing Director, Energy Publications Limited (publishers of Nigerian Petroleum News), Lagos; appointed Board member, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, since February 1989; appointed Chairman, Presidential Implementation Task Force on Bitumen, June 1989; National Honour: award ed Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR), 1982; Address: 2nd Floor, Western House, 8/10, Broad Street, PO Box 1790, Lagos; Telephone: (01) 636999.