Kamel Hassan Maghur | |
Office: | 15th Secretary General of OPEC |
Term Start: | 1 January 1984 |
Term End: | 31 October 1984 |
Predecessor: | Mana Al Otaiba |
Successor: | Subroto |
Birth Date: | 1 January 1935 |
Birth Place: | Dahra, Tripoli, Italian Libya |
Nationality: | Libyan |
Office1: | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
Office2: | Minister of Oil |
Successor1: | Jadallah Azzuz at-Talhi |
Successor2: | ? |
Predecessor1: | Ali Treki |
Predecessor2: | Abd al-Salam al-Zaqar |
Termend1: | 3 March 1987 |
Termstart1: | 3 March 1986 |
Termend2: | 3 March 1986 |
Termstart2: | 3 March 1982 |
Native Name Lang: | ar |
Kamel Hassan Maghur (Arabic: كامل حسن المقهور; 1 January 1935 – 5 January 2002) was a Libyan lawyer, diplomat, and writer. He also held various cabinet posts.[1]
Maghur was born in Dahra, Tripoli, Italian Libya in 1935.[2] He became a lawyer and subsequently a judge in Libya after completing law school in Cairo. He served in various diplomatic and international legal postings, including service as Libya's ambassador to the United Nations, Canada, France and China. In 1972 he became minister for petroleum and in 1984 served as OPEC's chief. In 1986–1987, he was Libya's minister for foreign affairs and in 1989 returned to private law practice in Tripoli. In the late 1990s he served as Libya's lawyer handling sanctions and charges associated with the Lockerbie bombing.
At the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial of accused Lamin Khalifah Fhimah and Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, Maghur was the Libyan defence lawyer the two accused had access to, in addition to their respective solicitors and advocates who represented them.[3]
Maghur published eight books of short stories between the 1950s and 2000. He and his wife Suhir Elgheryani had seven children.