Diezani K. Alison-Madueke was born on December 6, 1960 in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. She is a Nigerian politician and the first female President of OPEC. She was elected at the 166th OPEC Ordinary meeting in Vienna on November 27, 2014. She became Nigeria's minister of transportation on July 26, 2007. She was moved to Mines and Steel Development in 2008, and in April 2010 was appointed as the first female Minister of Petroleum Resources in Nigeria.

Diezani had her early education in Shell camp and attended Hussey Model School after the Nigerian civil war. In 1968, she enrolled in Township school, Port Harcourt and went on to Holy Rosary Government Girls Secondary School where she sat for her WASSCE in 1975. She proceeded to Federal School of Arts and Sciences in Mubi, Gongola State (now Adamawa State) for her A’ Levels and then moved to the United Kingdom in 1977 to study Architecture.

While in the UK, she commenced studying architecture in England but then moved to Howard University in the United States. She graduated from Howard with a bachelor's degree on December 8, 1992. In 2002, she attended Cambridge Judge Business School for her MBA degree. Diezani is a beneficiary of the Chevening scholarship.

In October 2023, Alison-Madueke appeared in court in the UK to face trial for bribery charges, following her prior arrest in 2017. The EFCC also announced that they had secured an arrest warrant for Alison-Madueke on money laundering charges and were seeking her extradition.

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