Anuar Taib

Anuar Taib

• Executive Vice President & CEO Upstream PETRONAS

Datuk Anuar Taib is the Executive Vice President and CEO of Upstream, PETRONAS, which integrates the Exploration & Production and LNG businesses globally.

He joined PETRONAS in 2012 as CEO of PETRONAS Development and Production (PDP), responsible for both Malaysia and International operations. He then advanced as the Senior Vice President of PETRONAS Upstream Malaysia.

He started his career in 1990 as a Wellsite Drilling Engineer with an international oil & gas company. He then progressed through various technical, commercial and leadership positions and in country, regional and global roles. He is a member of PETRONAS Executive Leadership Team and also the Chairman of the Asia Pacific Region in the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).

Datuk Anuar holds a Bachelor of Science (Bsc) in Mechanical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, United States and a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) in International Management from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University, Melbourne, Australia.