
Anibor Kragha
Executive Secretary,
African Refiners & Distributors Association (ARDA)
Côte d'Ivoire
Mr. Anibor Kragha is currently the Executive Secretary of the African Refiners & Distributors Association (ARDA), a position he has held from April 2020 to date. He also served as President of ARDA from March 2019 to March 2020. Prior to ARDA, Mr. Kragha served first as Group General Manager, Treasury and later as Chief Operating Officer (COO), Refining & Petrochemicals at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) between September 2015 and July 2019.
Before NNPC, Mr. Kragha spent over ten years working for Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN), an ExxonMobil affiliate, culminating in serving as Upstream Treasurer for ExxonMobil Affiliates in Nigeria from 2012 to 2015. He also had various roles in ExxonMobil Upstream Africa Audit, MPN’s Commercial and Treasurer’s groups, ExxonMobil Development Company and HQ Corporate Affiliate Finance in Nigeria and the USA.
Mr. Kragha holds a B.S. Chemical Engineering (University of Minnesota), M.S. Plastics Engineering (University of Massachusetts-Lowell) and two other Masters degrees (M.S. Chemical Engineering and MBA) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).