Samuel Dossou-Aworet

Founder Chairman: Petrolin Group, Fondation Espace Afrique
Chairman: African Business Roundtable

Engineer in Petrochemistry and Industrial Organic Synthesis of the Ecole Centrale de Marseille and Engineer of the French Institute of Petroleum, Samuel Dossou-Aworet, is an internationally recognized oil and gas businessman. He is the founding Chairman of Petrolin, an oil and gas company created in London in 1992 that has grown to become an international Pan-African hydrocarbons, energy and infrastructure group operating throughout Africa, the Middle East and Europe.

With over 40 years of experience in building strong partnerships between national and international players in Africa, he plays a strategic business role in several African countries including Congo, DRC, Gabon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Libya, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Togo, Uganda.

Samuel Dossou-Aworet has served as Chairman of the OPEC Board of Governors and General Manager of Hydrocarbons in Gabon. He served as Chairman of the Expert Committee of the African Petroleum Producers Association (APPA). He is a Founding member and the first Chairman of the African Petroleum Institute (AIP). He is chairman of the African Business Roundtable (ABR), board member of the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA), Vice president of PAFTRAC, member of the African Energy Leaders Group – West Africa.

Samuel Dossou-Aworet is the initiator of the Backbone Project, an integrated infrastructure project in Benin with regional coverage developing and
building a rail corridor, a petroleum, mineral and commercial port, dry ports and an international airport.

For more than 30 years, Samuel Dossou-Aworet has contributed to the wellbeing of the African population, well before the creation of his Pan-
African NGO, Fondation Espace Afrique, awarded official charitable status by the Canton of Geneva (Switzerland) in 1996 and Benin in 2004. Among his numerous humanitarian actions is the creation of a free and well-equipped boarding-school complex in a rural area of Gabon and the construction of the International Center for the Experiments and Valorization of African Resources (CIEVRA) in Benin.