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Wanda Jablonski

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Wanda Jablonski (Aug. 23, 1920, in Czechoslovakia - Jan. 28, 1992, in New York City) was a journalist who covered the oil and petroleum industries.

She earned a B.A. from Cornell University in 1942 and an M.A. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism the following year. She began as the oil editor at the Journal of Commerce and moved to Petroleum Week in 1954. She then founded Petroleum Intelligence Weekly in 1961 and ran it until 1988.

She is credited with arranging the 1959 meeting of oil ministers Abdullah Tariki, Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso, and others to sign the "Gentleman’s Agreement," a precursor of OPEC.

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