Halliburton Chairman of the Board, President and CEO Dave
Lesar said: "Abdallah Jum'ah brings tremendous global knowledge and
industry wisdom to our board and we are delighted that someone of his caliber
became available for service to our organization. We look forward to working
with him and introducing him to shareholders at the annual meeting in 2011."
Jum'ah is former president and CEO of Saudi Aramco. He also
currently serves on the J.P. Morgan Chase International Advisory Council, and
is a former member of the International Business Council of the World Economic
Forum.
Jum'ah has served as a trustee of the American University in
Cairo since 1998. He was identified by Fortune magazine as one of the most
influential business people in the world (2003) and selected as winner of the
Petroleum Executive of the Year Award (2005). Between 2007 and 2009, Jum'ah
served as vice chairman of the International Advisory Board of King Fahd
University of Petroleum and Minerals in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He is currently
a board member of Saudi Financial and Industrial Enterprises and also serves on
a number of international advisory bodies including the JP Morgan Chase
International Advisory Council. He was appointed in December 2007 to serve on
the supreme committee of King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, which
oversees the organization's mission of promoting and supporting, applied
scientific research to foster the Kingdom's ongoing economic and social
advancement.
A native of Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, Jum'ah studied
political science at the American University in Cairo and at the American
University in Beirut, and later completed the Program for Management
Development at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.
Jum'ah joins current Halliburton board members Alan M.
Bennett, James R. Boyd, Milton S. Carroll, Nance K. Dicciani, S. Malcolm
Gillis, James T. Hackett, David J. Lesar, Robert A. Malone, J. Landis Martin,
and Debra L. Reed.
