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BP Annual Report and Accounts 2008
Directors and senior management
Directors
P D Sutherland, SC, KCMG
Chairman of the chairman’s and the nomination committees and attends
meetings of the remuneration committee
Peter Sutherland (62) rejoined BP’s board in 1995, having been a non-
executive director from 1990 to 1993, and was appointed chairman in
1997. He is non-executive chairman of Goldman Sachs International and
was a non-executive director of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC
from 2001 to 6 February 2009.
Sir Ian Prosser
Member of the chairman’s, the nomination and the remuneration
committees and chairman of the audit committee
Sir Ian (65) joined BP’s board in 1997 and was appointed non-executive
deputy chairman in 1999. He is the senior independent director. In 2003,
he retired as chairman of InterContinental Hotels Group PLC, a spin-off
from the former Bass PLC where he was chief executive.
He is a non-executive director and senior independent director of
GlaxoSmithKline plc, a non-executive director of the Sara Lee Corporation
and non-executive chairman of The Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes
(NAAFI). He was previously on the boards of The Boots Company PLC
and Lloyds TSB PLC.
A Burgmans, KBE
Member of the chairman’s and the safety, ethics and environment
assurance committees
Antony Burgmans (62) 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 May 2007. He is also a member of the supervisory
boards of Akzo Nobel NV and Aegon NV.
C B Carroll
Member of the chairman’s and safety, ethics and environment assurance
committees
Cynthia Carroll (52) joined BP’s board in June 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 March 2007. She is
also a director of De Beers s.a. and Anglo Platinum Ltd.
Sir William Castell, LVO
Member of the chairman’s committee and chairman of the safety, ethics
and environment assurance committee
Sir William (61) joined BP’s board in 2006. 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.
G David
Member of the chairman’s and the audit committees
George David (66) joined BP’s board on 11 February 2008. He has spent
his career with United Technologies Corporation (UTC), as its chief
executive officer from 1994 to 2008 and chairman since 1997. He joined
UTC’s Otis elevator subsidiary in 1975.
E B Davis, Jr
Member of the chairman’s, the audit and the remuneration committees
Erroll B Davis, Jr (64) joined BP’s board in 1998, having previously been a
director of Amoco. He was chairman and chief executive officer of Alliant
Energy, relinquishing this dual appointment in 2005. He continued as
chairman of Alliant Energy until February 2006, leaving to become
chancellor of the University System of Georgia. He is a member of the
board of General Motors Corporation and Union Pacific Corporation.
D J Flint, CBE
Member of the chairman’s and the audit committees
Douglas Flint (53) joined BP’s board in 2005. He trained as a chartered
accountant and became a partner at KPMG in 1988. In 1995, he was
appointed group finance director of HSBC Holdings plc. He was chairman
of the Financial Reporting Council’s review of the Turnbull Guidance on
Internal Control. Between 2001 and 2004, he served on the Accounting
Standards Board and the Standards Advisory Council of the International
Accounting Standards Board.
Dr D S Julius, CBE
Member of the chairman’s and the nomination committees and chairman
of the remuneration committee
DeAnne Julius (59) joined BP’s board in 2001. She began her career as a
project economist with the World Bank in Washington. From 1986 until
1997, she held a succession of posts, including chief economist at British
Airways and Royal Dutch Shell Group. From 1997 to 2001, she was a full
time member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England.
She is chairman of the Royal Institute of International Affairs and a non-
executive director of Roche Holdings SA and Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc.
Sir Tom McKillop
Member of the chairman’s, the remuneration and the safety, ethics and
environment assurance committees
Sir Tom (65) joined BP’s board in 2004. Sir Tom was chief executive of
AstraZeneca PLC from the merger of Astra AB and Zeneca Group PLC in
1999 until December 2005. He was a non-executive director of Lloyds
TSB Group PLC until 2004 and was appointed to the board of The Royal
Bank of Scotland Group PLC in 2005, where he was chairman from 2006
to 3 February 2009.
Dr A B Hayward
Tony Hayward (51) joined BP in 1982. He held a series of roles in
exploration and production, becoming a director of exploration and
production in 1997. In 2000, he was made group treasurer, and an
executive vice president in 2002. He was chief executive officer of
exploration and production between 2002 and February 2007. He
became an executive director of BP in 2003 and was appointed as group
chief executive in May 2007. Dr Hayward is a non-executive director and
senior independent director of Tata Steel.
I C Conn
Iain Conn (46) 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 June 2007. He is a non-executive director and senior
independent director of Rolls-Royce Group plc.
Board performance and biographies
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