International Directory of Business Biographies


Ray R. Irani Biography

Chairman and chief executive officer, Occidental Petroleum Corporation

Nationality: American.

Born: January 13, 1935, in Beirut, Lebanon.

Education: American Institute of Beirut, BS, 1953; University of Southern California, PhD, 1957.

Family: Son of Rida and Naz Irani; children: three.

Career: Monsanto Company, 1957–1967, research scientist; Shamrock...

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