Diezani Alison-Madueke

== Career ==

=== Shell Nigeria ===
She returned to [[Nigeria]] in 1992 and joined [[Shell Nigeria|Shell Petroleum Development Corporation]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=SPDC – The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria |url=https://www.shell.com.ng/about-us/what-we-do/spdc.html |access-date=2022-03-11 |website=www.shell.com.ng |language=en}}</ref> working in the estates area of operations in the Lagos office of Shell as well as acting as an architectural consultant. She rose to the position of Head of Civil Infrastructures and then became Head of Corporate Issues and Crisis Management Unit in 1997. Upon completion of her MBA program at Cambridge, she was made Lead Joint Ventures Representation Adviser in 2004.<ref name="sunstyle" />

Alison-Madueke was appointed as an Executive Director of [[Shell Nigeria|Shell]] in 2006. She was the first woman ever to be appointed by Shell as an Executive Director in Nigeria.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.naija.ng/1120774-diezani-alison-madueke-biography-career.html#1120774|title=Story of ex-minister Diezani Alison-Madueke who broke through the ranks in a male-dominated oil sector|last=Olawale|first=Johnson|date=2017-11-25|work=Naija.ng - Nigeria news.|access-date=2018-01-17|language=en-US}}</ref>

===In government===
Alison-Madueke has held three significant positions in the [[Nigerian]] federal government. She was appointed Transportation Minister in July 2007. On 23 December 2008, she became the Minister of Mines and Steel Development.<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://odili.net/news/source/2008/dec/24/432.html
 |date=24 December 2008
 |title=Alison-Madueke resumes at Mines and Steel ministry
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 |access-date=2009-12-15}}{{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> When Vice-President; [[Goodluck Jonathan]] became acting President in February 2010, he dissolved the cabinet on 17 March 2010, and swore in a new cabinet on 6 April 2010 with Alison-Madueke as Minister for Petroleum Resources.<ref>{{cite web
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 |title       = New Cabinet Unveiled as Nigeria's Acting President Shores Up Position
 |date        = 7 April 2010
 |work        = IHS Global Insight
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}}</ref> Diezani left office on June 1, 2015, as part of the presidential transition to Jonathan's successor. She then went to work for the Commonwealth of Dominica as a Trade and Investment Commissioner.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-06-07|title=Revealed: Diezani now Dominican citizen|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/06/revealed-diezani-now-dominican-citizen/|access-date=2021-11-10|website=Vanguard News|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Egbas|first=Jude|date=2020-06-07|title=How Diezani escaped Nigeria and became Commissioner in Dominica|url=https://www.pulse.ng/news/local/how-diezani-escaped-nigeria-and-became-commissioner-in-dominica/bbm3rzv|access-date=2021-11-10|website=Pulse Nigeria|language=en}}</ref>

====Minister of Petroleum Resources====
As Minister of Petroleum Resources, Alison-Madueke pledged to transform [[Petroleum industry in Nigeria|Nigeria's oil and gas industry]] so that all Nigerians benefit.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhhrNg7ySko
  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/nhhrNg7ySko |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Oil and Gas Working for All Nigeria Part 1
 |author=Diezani Alison-Madueke
 |website=[[YouTube]] |access-date=2012-01-12}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In April 2010, President [[Goodluck Jonathan]] signed the Nigerian Content Act, which aimed to increase the percentage of petroleum industry contracts awarded to indigenous Nigerian businesses – a reaction to the domination of the sector by foreign operators.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://allafrica.com/stories/201005040301.html
 |title=Content Law - of Content And Contempt
 |work=[[Media Trust|Daily Trust]]
 |author=Hamisu Muhammad |date=4 May 2010 |access-date=2012-01-12}}</ref>

One of the most controversial policies introduced under Alison-Madueke was the government's plan to remove state subsidies on fuel prices. Alison-Madueke supported the discontinuation of the subsidy "because it poses a huge financial burden on the government, disproportionately benefits the wealthy, [and] encourages inefficiency, corruption and diversion of scarce public resources away from investment in critical infrastructure."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/energy/33991-fg-outlines-benefits-of-fuel-subsidy-removal |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302023913/http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/energy/33991-fg-outlines-benefits-of-fuel-subsidy-removal |title=FG outlines benefits of fuel subsidy removal
 |newspaper=[[Nigerian Tribune]]
 |author=Tunde Dodondawa |date=9 January 2012 |archive-date=2 March 2012 |url-status=unfit}}</ref>

===Firsts===
Alison-Madueke was the first woman to hold the position of Minister of Petroleum Resources in Nigeria, and in October 2010 she became the first woman to head a country delegation at the semi-annual [[OPEC]] conference. She was also the first female Minister of Transportation, and the first woman to be appointed to the board of Shell Petroleum Development Company Nigeria.<ref>{{cite web|date=17 September 2011|title=NDA awards Alison-Madueke doctorate degree|url=http://sweetcrudereports.com/2011/09/17/nda-awards-alison-madueke-doctorate-degree/|access-date=2012-01-12|work=SweetCrude Reports|archive-date=17 November 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111117075506/http://sweetcrudereports.com/2011/09/17/nda-awards-alison-madueke-doctorate-degree/|url-status=dead}}</ref> On 27 November 2014, she was elected as the first female President of OPEC.<ref>{{Cite news|author=Okafor, Chineme|date=27 November 2014|title=Petroleum Minister, Alison-Madueke Elected First OPEC Female President|newspaper=This Day Live|url=http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/petroleum-minister-alison-madueke-elected-first-opec-female-president/195193/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150115023733/http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/petroleum-minister-alison-madueke-elected-first-opec-female-president/195193/|archive-date=15 January 2015|df=dmy}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=First in history: Alison-Madueke elected new OPEC President|url=https://newsexpressngr.com/news/8363-First-in-history-Alison-Madueke-elected-new-OPEC-President|access-date=2020-05-26|website=News Express Nigeria Website|language=en}}</ref>

On working in male-dominated sectors, Alison-Madueke said she advised the young women she mentored while at Shell to "change their mode of thinking."<ref>{{cite web|date=12 June 2011|title=NPDC's Appointment of a Funding Partner Has Been Greatly Misunderstood – Alison-Madueke|url=http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/npdc-s-appointment-of-a-funding-partner-has-been-greatly-misunderstood-alison-madueke/93077/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120506195037/http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/npdc-s-appointment-of-a-funding-partner-has-been-greatly-misunderstood-alison-madueke/93077/|archive-date=6 May 2012|access-date=2012-01-12|work=[[ThisDay]]|df=dmy}}</ref>