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Corporate governance
Carl-Henric Svanberg
Chairman
Tenure
Appointed 1 September 2009
Outside interests
Chairman of AB Volvo
Age 63 Nationality Swedish
Career
Carl-Henric Svanberg became chairman
of the BP board on 1 January 2010.
He spent his early career at Asea Brown
Boveri and the Securitas Group, before
moving to the Assa Abloy Group as
president and chief executive officer.
From 2003 until 31 December 2009,
when he left to join BP, he was
president and chief executive officer of
Ericsson, also serving as the chairman
of Sony Ericsson Mobile
Communications AB. He was a
non-executive director of Ericsson
between 2009 and 2012. He was
appointed chairman and a member of
the board of AB Volvo in April 2012.
He is a member of the External Advisory
Board of the Earth Institute at Columbia
University and a member of the
Advisory Board of Harvard Kennedy
School. He is also the recipient of the
King of Sweden’s medal for his
contribution to Swedish industry.
Relevant skills and experience
Carl-Henric Svanberg is a highly
experienced leader of global
corporations. He has served as both
chief executive officer and chairman to
high profile businesses, giving him a
deep understanding of international
strategic and commercial issues. His
experience allows him to co-ordinate the
diverse range of knowledge and skills
provided by the board.
Bob Dudley
Group chief executive
Tenure
Appointed to the board 6 April 2009
Outside interests
Non-executive director of Rosneft
Member of Tsinghua Management
University Advisory Board,
Beijing, China
Member of BritishAmerican Business
International Advisory Board
Member of UAE/UK CEO Forum
Member of the Emirates Foundation
Board of Trustees
Member of the World Economic Forum
(WEF) International Business Council
Chair of the WEF Oil and Gas Climate
Initiative
Member of the Russian Geographical
Society Board of Trustees
Fellow of the Royal Academy of
Engineering
Age 60 Nationality American
Career
Bob Dudley became group chief
executive on 1 October 2010.
Bob joined Amoco Corporation in 1979,
working in a variety of engineering and
commercial posts. Between 1994 and
1997, he worked on corporate
development in Russia. In 1997 he
became general manager for strategy
for Amoco and in 1999, following the
merger between BP and Amoco, was
appointed to a similar role in BP.
Between 1999 and 2000, he was
executive assistant to the group chief
executive, subsequently becoming
group vice president for BP’s
renewables and alternative energy
activities. In 2002 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.
On his return to BP in 2009 he was
appointed to the BP board 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. He was
appointed a director of Rosneft in 2013
following BP’s acquisition of a stake in
Rosneft.
Relevant skills and experience
Bob Dudley has spent his whole career
in the oil and gas industry. He has held
senior management roles in Amoco and
BP and as the chief executive officer of
TNK-BP from 2003 to 2008.
Over the five years that he has been
group chief executive, Bob has
transformed BP into a safer, stronger
and simpler business. By focusing the
group’s approach on value not volume
and operating through a set of
consistent values, Bob has guided BP’s
recovery to a position of greater
resilience, to enable it to continue
delivering results in an uncertain
economic environment.
Dr Brian Gilvary
Chief financial officer
Tenure
Appointed to the board 1 January 2012
Outside interests
Visiting professor at Manchester
University
External advisor to director general
(spending and finance), HM
Treasury Financial Management
Review Board
Nominated for appointment by the AGM
as a non-executive director of L’A ir
Liquide S.A. from May 2016
Member of the 100 Group Committee
GB Age Group triathlete
Age 54 Nationality British
Career
Dr Brian Gilvary was appointed chief
financial officer on 1 January 2012.
He joined BP in 1986 after obtaining a
PhD in mathematics from the University
of Manchester. Following a variety of
roles in the Upstream, Downstream and
trading in Europe and the US, he
became Downstream’s chief financial
officer and commercial director from
2002 to 2005. From 2005 to 2009 he
was chief executive of the integrated
supply and trading function, BP’s
commodity trading arm. In 2010 he was
appointed deputy group chief financial
officer with responsibility for the finance
function.
He was a director of TNK-BP over two
periods, from 2003 to 2005 and from
2010 until the sale of the business and
acquisition of Rosneft equity in 2013.
Brian will also take on accountability for
integrated supply and trading and
shipping during 2016.
Relevant skills and experience
Dr Brian Gilvary has spent his entire
career with BP. He has a strong
knowledge of finance and trading, a
deep understanding of BP’s assets and
businesses and has very broad
experience of the business as a whole.
Brian has been instrumental in
transforming BP’s capital structure and
operational costs during its recovery and
as it adjusts to a low oil price
environment, while ensuring the group
is capable of meeting new opportunities
going forward.
Paul Anderson
Independent non-executive director
Tenure
Appointed 1 February 2010
Outside interests
No external appointments
Age 70 Nationality American
Career
Paul Anderson was formerly chief
executive at BHP Billiton and 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 rejoined these latter two
boards in 2006 as a non-executive
director, retiring in January 2010.
Previously he served as a non-executive
director of BAE Systems PLC and on a
number of boards in the US and
Australia, and was also chief executive
officer of Pan Energy Corp.
Relevant skills and experience
Paul Anderson has spent his career in
the energy industry working with global
organizations, and brings the skills of an
experienced chairman and chief
executive officer to the board. As
chairman of the SEEAC since 2012, he
has maintained the board’s focus on
safety and broader non-financial issues.
This year he has worked with Brendan
Nelson to integrate the oversight of the
SEEAC with that of the audit committee,
to provide a cohesive and robust
overview of business risks.
His experience of business in the US
and its regulatory environment has
greatly assisted the work of the Gulf of
Mexico committee and is an asset to the
geopolitical committee.
Alan Boeckmann
Independent non-executive director
Tenure
Appointed 24 July 2014
Outside interests
Non-executive director of Sempra
Energy
Non-executive director of Archer Daniels
Midland
Age 67 Nationality American
Career
Alan Boeckmann retired as non-
executive chairman of Fluor Corporation
in February of 2012, ending a 35-year
career with the company. Between
2002 and 2011, he held the post of
chairman and chief executive officer and
was president and chief operating
officer from 2001 to 2002. His tenure
with the company included
responsibility for global operations. As
chairman and CEO, he refocused the
company on engineering, procurement,
construction and maintenance services.
After graduating from the University of
Arizona with a degree in electrical
engineering, he joined Fluor in 1974 as
an engineer and worked in a variety of
domestic and international locations,
including South Africa and Venezuela.
Alan was previously a non-executive
director of BHP Billiton and the
Burlington Santa Fe Corporation and has
served on the boards of the American
Petroleum Institute and the National
Petroleum Council. He was also a board
member and trustee of the Eisenhower
Medical Center in Rancho Mirage,
California and the Advisory Board of
Southern Methodist University’s Cox
School of Business.
He led the formation of the World
Economic Forum’s ‘Partnering Against
Corruption’ Initiative in 2004.
Relevant skills and experience
Alan Boeckmann has been a chairman
and chief executive officer in the
worldwide engineering and construction
industry and in the energy sector. He
brings deep experience to the board and
in his roles on the SEEAC and Gulf of
Mexico committee, not only from his
profession as an engineer but also of
international project management and
procurement.
Alan joined the remuneration committee
in 2015.
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