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Home/News from NPR/Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Key To Making Saudi Arabia A World Oil Power, Dies At 90 Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Key To Making Saudi Arabia A World Oil Power, Dies At 90 By Jackie Northam  February 23, 2021 Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabia’s long-serving oil minister who was instrumental in catapulting the kingdom into the energy powerhouse it is today , has died in London. He was 90 years old. Yamani held enormous sway on the global stage during his nearly 25 years as oil minister, starting in 1962, and rose to fame for engineering the 1973 oil embargo. A devout Muslim, Yamani was born in the holy city of Mecca, the son of an Islamic judge who taught him to debate and think logically. Yamani earned higher education degrees abroad, at a university in Cairo, New York University and Harvard, before heading back to Saudi Arabia, where he gained a reputation as a brilliant lawyer and newspaper columnist.

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