Wanda Jablonski

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

Born the daughter of the Polish petroleum geologist Eugene Jablonski, she learned as a child to know many countries and the local oil industry. Your graduation she reached in 1937 at St Georges School, Harpenden, England. As a result, studied journalism at Cornell University (BA 1942) and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (MA 1943) in the United States.

As a technical writer for oil issues in the Journal of Commerce in 1948, she founded her reputation as a journalist with an interview with Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo, the former oil minister of Venezuela and later architect of OPEC. In 1954 she moved to Petroleum Week, claiming since then by their journalistic activities as an independent entity in the oil industry, saying on par with oil ministers and Oilman. In 1961 she founded the influential Petroleum Intelligence Weekly, which she led until 1988.

She made the Saudi oil minister Abdullah Tariki and the Venezuelan oil minister Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo known each other and arranged the separate meeting of oil ministers of the Arab Oil Conference 1959, which led to the adoption of the " gentleman's agreement " - a precursor of OPEC.