BP Annual Report and Form 20-F 2011 - Company Reporting

Directors and senior managementDirectorsC-H SvanbergChairman of the chairman’s and nomination committees and attendsmeetings of the Gulf of Mexico and remuneration committeesCarl-Henric Svanberg (59) joined BP’s board in September 2009 andbecame chairman of BP on 1 January 2010. From 2003 until December2009, he was president and chief executive officer of Ericsson, alsoserving as the chairman of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB. Hecontinues to be a non-executive director of Ericsson.R W DudleyRobert Dudley (56) joined the Amoco Corporation in 1979 for whom heworked until its merger with BP in 1998. Following a variety of posts inthe US, the UK, the South China Sea and Moscow, in 2001 he becamegroup vice president responsible for BP’s upstream businesses in Russia,the Caspian Region, Angola, Algeria and Egypt. From 2003 to 2008, hewas president and chief executive officer of TNK-BP in Moscow. He wasappointed an executive director in April 2009 and oversaw the group’sactivities in the Americas and Asia. Between 23 June and 30 September2010, he served as the president and chief executive officer of BP’s GulfCoast Restoration Organization in the US. On 1 October 2010 he becameBP’s group chief executive.P M AndersonMember of the chairman’s and Gulf of Mexico committees and chairman ofthe safety, ethics and environment assurance committeePaul Anderson (66) was appointed a non-executive director of BP on1 February 2010. He is a non-executive director of BAE Systems PLC andof Spectra Energy Corp. He was formerly chief executive at Duke Energywhere he also served as chairman of the board. Having previously been chiefexecutive officer and managing director of BHP Limited and then BHP BillitonLimited and BHP Billiton Plc, he re-joined these latter boards in 2006 as anon-executive director, retiring on 31 January 2010. Previously he served as anon-executive director on numerous boards in the US and Australia.F L BowmanMember of the chairman’s, Gulf of Mexico and safety, ethics andenvironment assurance committeesFrank Bowman (67) joined BP’s board on 8 November 2010. He servedfor over 38 years in the United States Navy, during which time he servedas commander of the nuclear submarine USS City of Corpus Christi andcommander of the submarine tender USS Holland, director of politicalmilitaryaffairs on the joint staff and chief of naval personnel. He wasdirector of the naval nuclear propulsion programme in the Department ofNavy and Department of Energy. After retiring from the Navy as an admiral,he became president and chief executive officer of the Nuclear EnergyInstitute. He served on the BP Independent Safety Review Panel and onthe BP America Advisory Panel. He is president of Strategic Decisions, LLCand a director of Morgan Stanley Mutual Funds.A Burgmans, KBEMember of the chairman’s, nomination and safety, ethics and environmentassurance committees and chairman of the remuneration committeeAntony Burgmans (65) joined BP’s board in 2004. He was appointed tothe board of Unilever in 1991. In 1999, he became chairman of UnileverNV and vice chairman of Unilever PLC. In 2005, he became nonexecutivechairman of Unilever PLC and Unilever NV, retiring from theseappointments in 2007. He is also a member of the supervisory boards ofAkzo Nobel N.V., Aegon N.V. and SHV Holdings N.V.C B CarrollMember of the chairman’s, nomination and safety, ethics and environmentassurance committeesCynthia Carroll (55) joined BP’s board in 2007. She started her career atAmoco and in 1989 she joined Alcan, where in 2002 she was appointedpresident and chief executive officer of Alcan’s primary metals group andan officer of Alcan, Inc. She was appointed as chief executive of AngloAmerican plc, the global mining group, in 2007. She is also a director of DeBeers s.a. and chairman of Anglo Platinum Ltd.Sir William Castell, LVOMember of the chairman’s, Gulf of Mexico, nomination and safety, ethics andenvironment assurance committeesSir William (64) joined BP’s board in 2006 and is the senior independentdirector. From 1990 to 2004, he was chief executive of Amersham plc andsubsequently president and chief executive officer of GE Healthcare. Hewas appointed as a vice chairman of the board of GE in 2004, steppingdown from this post in 2006 when he became chairman of the WellcomeTrust. He remains a non-executive director of GE. He will retire from theBP board at the conclusion of the 2012 AGM.I C ConnIain Conn (49) joined BP in 1986. Following a variety of roles in oil trading,commercial refining, retail and commercial marketing operations, andexploration and production, in 2000 he became group vice president ofBP’s refining and marketing business. From 2002 to 2004, he was chiefexecutive of petrochemicals. He was appointed group executive officerwith a range of regional and functional responsibilities and an executivedirector in 2004. He was appointed chief executive of Refining andMarketing in 2007. He is a non-executive director and senior independentdirector of Rolls-Royce Holdings plc, chairman of The Advisory Board ofImperial College Business School and a member of The Council of TheImperial College.G DavidMember of the chairman’s, audit, Gulf of Mexico and remunerationcommitteesGeorge David (69) began his career in The Boston Consulting Group beforejoining the Otis Elevator Company in 1975. He held various roles in Otisand later in United Technologies Corporation (UTC), following Otis’s mergerwith 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 aschairman from 1997 until his retirement in 2009.I E L DavisMember of the chairman’s, nomination and remuneration committees andchairman of the Gulf of Mexico committeeIan Davis (60) joined BP’s board on 2 April 2010. He spent his early careerat Bowater, moving to McKinsey & Company in 1979. He was managingpartner of McKinsey’s practice in the UK and Ireland from 1996 to 2003. In2003, he was appointed as chairman and worldwide managing director ofMcKinsey, serving in this capacity until 2009. He retired as senior partnerof McKinsey & Company in July 2010. He is a non-executive director ofJohnson & Johnson, Inc and a senior adviser to Apax Partners. He is also anon-executive member of the UK’s Cabinet Office.Professor Dame Ann DowlingMember of the chairman’s and safety, ethics and environment assurancecommitteesDame Ann (59) joined BP’s board on 3 February 2012. She was appointeda Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Department of Engineeringat the University of Cambridge in 1993. Between 1999 and 2000 shewas the Jerome C Hunsaker Visiting Professor of Aerospace Systems atMIT subsequently becoming a Moore distinguished scholar at Caltech in2001. When she returned to the University of Cambridge, she becameHead of the Division of Energy, Fluid Mechanics and Turbomachineryin the Department of Engineering, becoming UK lead of the SilentAircraft Initiative in 2003 and Head of the Department of Engineeringat the University of Cambridge in 2009. She is chair of the PhysicalSciences, Engineering and Mathematics Panel in the Research ExcellenceFramework – the UK government’s review of research in universities.She was appointed Director of the University Gas TurbinePartnership with Rolls-Royce in 2001 and chairman in 2009. Between 2003and 2008 she chaired the Rolls-Royce Propulsion and Power AdvisoryBoard. She chaired the Royal Society/Royal Academy of Engineering studyon Nanotechnology.Directors and senior managementBP Annual Report and Form 20-F 2011 115