VOL. XLIII

No. 16

17-April-2000

SAUDI ARABIA

Saudi Electricity Company Names Chief Executive

The new joint-stock Saudi Electricity Company (SEC), which received a license to start operating on 5 April (MEES, 10 April), has named Sulaiman 'Abd Allah al-Qadi as its first chief executive officer. Mr Qadi was formerly general manager of the Saudi Consolidated Electric Company East, one of the kingdoms 10 power firms that were merged to form SEC.