Out of the desert: my journey from nomadic Bedouin to the heart of global oil

This is the extraordinary memoir of global oil's former central banker Ali Al-Naimi is the former Saudi oil minister - and OPEC kingpin - a position he held for the two decades between August 1995 and May 2016.

In this time, Al-Naimi's briefest utterances moved markets.

But it wasn't always that way. Al-Naimi was born into abject poverty as a nomadic Bedouin in the 1930s, just as US companies were discovering vast quantities of oil under the baking Arabian deserts.

From his first job as a shepherd boy, aged four, to his appointment to one of the most powerful political and economic jobs in the world, 'Out of the Desert' charts Al-Naimi's extraordinary rise to power.