Ingrid Aliet-Gass
Ingrid Aliet-Gass is the founder of the Western States International. Ms Gass was appointed to OPEC (Oil Producing Export Countries) as head of public relations and introduced to the member countries by Secretary General of OPEC, Dr. Elrich Sanger in 1969. She assisted the organization of the OPEC conference in Vienna, Austria in 1970. She assisted in the development and implementation of the “Product (OIL) Sharing Concept” for the Oil Producing Export Countries (OPEC). She was instrumental in implementing the Indonesian National Oil and Gas Company (Pertamina) one of the leading members of OPEC at the time. She was appointed as an official representative by the USA and Indonesia for the first Indonesian Presidential Delegation to United States in 1970. Ingrid Aliet-Gass was appointed by the President of Indonesia to act as a representative of Pertamina (Indonesian National Oil and Gas Company) and Perta Oil Marketing Company in USA, to build the involvement, relations, participation and support of the USA Administration, US Banking and US industry in the Oil, Gas, Energy development and the economy of Indonesia in 1975. At the same time she was expanding and assisting Lemigas (the Oil & Gas research arm of Pertamina) and implementing various new Oil & Energy technologies jointly with the major Multinational Oil and Gas Companies to effectively build the Energy Industry in Indonesia and Middle Eastern countries. Ingrid Aliet-Gass was appointed as the head of the Qualification Commission for the Indonesian Stock Exchange in a venture with the New York Stock Exchange and London Exchange, qualifying Multinational USA and European Companies to be listed on the Indonesian Exchange in 1978.
She continues in her positions with Indonesia and the USA today:
Ingrid was appointed by the UN and the USA as official observer of Indonesia, and the Indonesian General Election in 1999.
In 2000, Ingrid Introduced and is currently supervising the cooperation of the United States Senate Committee of Energy and Natural Recourses with the Russian Duma (Parliament) Committee of Energy and Natural Resources.
Ingrid has been promoting and supervising business in the field of Energy, Oil and Gas, Natural resource production between the State of Alaska and Sakhalin (Russian Federation) since 2000.
She is promoting closer ties, ventures, cooperation between Pertamina, Indonesian Industries, and Russian Oil and Energy, heavy machinery and technology industries.
In 2000, Ingrid, started the USA - Russia Forest Initiative Program with the cooperation of the United States Senate, House of Representatives, American Association of Forest and Paper, Department of Agriculture, U.S.A. major forestry companies, and Russian Forest Regions, Duma, and Major Russian forestry companies.
Ingrid, introduced and implemented the Jakarta-Los Angeles Gateway Concept in 1989.
Ingrid was appointed Chairman of the “Jakarta-Amsterdam-Los Angeles” Sister Cities Triangle by Governor of Jakarta, Wijogo Admodarminto, Mayor of Rotterdam, Dr. A. Peper and Los Angeles Mayor, Tom Bradley in 1990.
Ingrid, was appointed as a Representative of the City of Los Angeles, representing the City and the Mayor of Los Angeles Internationally in 1991.
Ingrid, was a representative of the International Bamboo Foundation and the Saving the Tropical Forests program on the UN environmental conference in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, in 1994.
Professional and business affiliations:
ARCO, Unocal, Shell, Conoco, Bechtel, Parsons, Pertamina, Perta, Permindo, Dow Schlumberger, Fluor Corporation, Exxon, Sun Computers, Mission Energy (Edison), City of Los Angeles Water and Power, BP, et al.