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Dr. Ray R. Irani, age 72, is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Occidental Petroleum Corporation. He joined Occidental in 1983 as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Occidental Chemical Corporation, an Occidental subsidiary, and as Executive Vice President of Occidental. In 1984 he was elected to the Board of Directors of Occidental and was named President and Chief Operating Officer. He assumed the responsibilities of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in 1990, and the additional position of President in 2005. Dr. Irani was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Canadian Occidental Petroleum Ltd., an Occidental affiliate, from 1987 to 1999. Dr. Irani is a director of Kaufman & Broad S.A., the Company’s publicly-traded French subsidiary. Dr. Irani has been a Director of the Company since 1992. | 