Wanda Jablonski

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Wanda Jablonski (born August 23, 1920 in Czechoslovakia , † January 28, 1992 in New York City ) was an influential specialist journalist in the oil industry.

Born as the daughter of the Polish oil geologist Eugene Jablonski, she got to know numerous countries and the local oil industry as a child. She finished school in 1937 at St. Georges School in Harpenden , England. She then studied journalism at Cornell University (BA 1942) and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (MA 1943) in the USA.

As a specialist editor for oil issues in the Journal of Commerce , she established her reputation as a journalist in 1948 with an interview with Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo , Venezuela's then oil minister and later architect of OPEC. In 1954 she moved to Petroleum Week and since then has asserted herself as an independent figure in the oil industry through her journalistic activities and spoke equally with oil ministers and oil industrialists. In 1961 she founded the influential Petroleum Intelligence Weekly , which she ran until 1988.

She introduced the Saudi oil minister Abdullah Tariki and the Venezuelan oil minister Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo to each other and arranged the separate meeting of oil ministers at the Arab Oil Conference in 1959, which led to the adoption of the "Gentleman's Agreement" - a forerunner of OPEC .

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SURNAME Jablonski, Wanda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American specialist journalist in the petroleum industry
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd August 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1992
Place of death New York City