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Directors and senior management
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Directors and senior management
Directors
C-H Svanberg
Chairman of the chairman’s and nomination committees and attends
meetings of the Gulf of Mexico and remuneration committees
Carl-Henric Svanberg (59) joined BP’s board in September 2009 and
became chairman of BP on 1 January 2010. From 2003 until December
2009, he was president and chief executive officer of Ericsson, also
serving as the chairman of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB. He
continues to be a non-executive director of Ericsson.
R W Dudley
Robert Dudley (56) joined the Amoco Corporation in 1979 for whom he
worked until its merger with BP in 1998. Following a variety of posts in
the US, the UK, the South China Sea and Moscow, in 2001 he became
group vice president responsible for BP’s upstream businesses in Russia,
the Caspian Region, Angola, Algeria and Egypt. From 2003 to 2008, he
was president and chief executive officer of TNK-BP in Moscow. He was
appointed an executive director in April 2009 and oversaw the group’s
activities in the Americas and Asia. Between 23 June and 30 September
2010, he served as the president and chief executive officer of BP’s Gulf
Coast Restoration Organization in the US. On 1 October 2010 he became
BP’s group chief executive.
P M Anderson
Member of the chairman’s and Gulf of Mexico committees and chairman of
the safety, ethics and environment assurance committee
Paul Anderson (66) was appointed a non-executive director of BP on
1 February 2010. He is a non-executive director of BAE Systems PLC and
of Spectra Energy Corp. He was formerly chief executive at Duke Energy
where he also served as chairman of the board. Having previously been chief
executive officer and managing director of BHP Limited and then BHP Billiton
Limited and BHP Billiton Plc, he re-joined these latter boards in 2006 as a
non-executive director, retiring on 31 January 2010. Previously he served as a
non-executive director on numerous boards in the US and Australia.
F L Bowman
Member of the chairman’s, Gulf of Mexico and safety, ethics and
environment assurance committees
Frank Bowman (67) joined BP’s board on 8 November 2010. He served
for over 38 years in the United States Navy, during which time he served
as commander of the nuclear submarine USS City of Corpus Christi and
commander of the submarine tender USS Holland, director of political-
military affairs on the joint staff and chief of naval personnel. He was
director of the naval nuclear propulsion programme in the Department of
Navy and Department of Energy. After retiring from the Navy as an admiral,
he became president and chief executive officer of the Nuclear Energy
Institute. He served on the BP Independent Safety Review Panel and on
the BP America Advisory Panel. He is president of Strategic Decisions, LLC
and a director of Morgan Stanley Mutual Funds.
A Burgmans, KBE
Member of the chairman’s, nomination and safety, ethics and environment
assurance committees and chairman of the remuneration committee
Antony Burgmans (65) joined BP’s board in 2004. He was appointed to
the board of Unilever in 1991. In 1999, he became chairman of Unilever
NV and vice chairman of Unilever PLC. In 2005, he became non-
executive chairman of Unilever PLC and Unilever NV, retiring from these
appointments in 2007. He is also a member of the supervisory boards of
Akzo Nobel N.V., Aegon N.V. and SHV Holdings N.V.
C B Carroll
Member of the chairman’s, nomination and safety, ethics and environment
assurance committees
Cynthia Carroll (55) joined BP’s board in 2007. She started her career at
Amoco and in 1989 she joined Alcan, where in 2002 she was appointed
president and chief executive officer of Alcan’s primary metals group and
an officer of Alcan, Inc. She was appointed as chief executive of Anglo
American plc, the global mining group, in 2007. She is also a director of De
Beers s.a. and chairman of Anglo Platinum Ltd.
Sir William Castell, LVO
Member of the chairman’s, Gulf of Mexico, nomination and safety, ethics and
environment assurance committees
Sir William (64) joined BP’s board in 2006 and is the senior independent
director. From 1990 to 2004, he was chief executive of Amersham plc and
subsequently president and chief executive officer of GE Healthcare. He
was appointed as a vice chairman of the board of GE in 2004, stepping
down from this post in 2006 when he became chairman of the Wellcome
Trust. He remains a non-executive director of GE. He will retire from the
BP board at the conclusion of the 2012 AGM.
I C Conn
Iain Conn (49) joined BP in 1986. Following a variety of roles in oil trading,
commercial refining, retail and commercial marketing operations, and
exploration and production, in 2000 he became group vice president of
BP’s refining and marketing business. From 2002 to 2004, he was chief
executive of petrochemicals. He was appointed group executive officer
with a range of regional and functional responsibilities and an executive
director in 2004. He was appointed chief executive of Refining and
Marketing in 2007. He is a non-executive director and senior independent
director of Rolls-Royce Holdings plc, chairman of The Advisory Board of
Imperial College Business School and a member of The Council of The
Imperial College.
G David
Member of the chairman’s, audit, Gulf of Mexico and remuneration
committees
George David (69) began his career in The Boston Consulting Group before
joining the Otis Elevator Company in 1975. He held various roles in Otis
and later in United Technologies Corporation (UTC), following Otis’s merger
with UTC in 1977. In 1992, he became UTC’s chief operating officer.
He served as UTC’s chief executive officer from 1994 until 2008 and as
chairman from 1997 until his retirement in 2009.
I E L Davis
Member of the chairman’s, nomination and remuneration committees and
chairman of the Gulf of Mexico committee
Ian Davis (60) joined BP’s board on 2 April 2010. He spent his early career
at Bowater, moving to McKinsey & Company in 1979. He was managing
partner of McKinsey’s practice in the UK and Ireland from 1996 to 2003. In
2003, he was appointed as chairman and worldwide managing director of
McKinsey, serving in this capacity until 2009. He retired as senior partner
of McKinsey & Company in July 2010. He is a non-executive director of
Johnson & Johnson, Inc and a senior adviser to Apax Partners. He is also a
non-executive member of the UK’s Cabinet Office.
Professor Dame Ann Dowling
Member of the chairman’s and safety, ethics and environment assurance
committees
Dame Ann (59) joined BP’s board on 3 February 2012. She was appointed
a Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Department of Engineering
at the University of Cambridge in 1993. Between 1999 and 2000 she
was the Jerome C Hunsaker Visiting Professor of Aerospace Systems at
MIT subsequently becoming a Moore distinguished scholar at Caltech in
2001. When she returned to the University of Cambridge, she became
Head of the Division of Energy, Fluid Mechanics and Turbomachinery
in the Department of Engineering, becoming UK lead of the Silent
Aircraft Initiative in 2003 and Head of the Department of Engineering
at the University of Cambridge in 2009. She is chair of the Physical
Sciences, Engineering and Mathematics Panel in the Research Excellence
Framework – the UK government’s review of research in universities.
She was appointed Director of the University Gas Turbine
Partnership with Rolls-Royce in 2001 and chairman in 2009. Between 2003
and 2008 she chaired the Rolls-Royce Propulsion and Power Advisory
Board. She chaired the Royal Society/Royal Academy of Engineering study
on Nanotechnology.