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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 became group chief executive on 1 October 2010.<ref name="BPbio">[http://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/about-bp/company-information/board-and-executive-management/the-board/bob-dudley.html Bob Dudley], BP, accessed 9 June 2013.</ref> | 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 became group chief executive on 1 October 2010.<ref name="BPbio">[http://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/about-bp/company-information/board-and-executive-management/the-board/bob-dudley.html Bob Dudley], BP, accessed 9 June 2013.</ref> | ||
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| + | On 1 April 2015 Dudley was one of [[Conservative Business Letter - Telegraph 1 April 2015| 103 business leaders who wrote to the Telegraph]] praising the British [[Conservative Party]]'s economic policies and claiming a [[Labour]] government would 'threaten jobs and deter investment' in the UK.<ref>Peter Dominiczak, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11507586/General-Election-2015-Labour-threatens-Britains-recovery-say-100-business-chiefs.html 100 business chiefs: Labour threatens Britain's recovery], ''Telegraph'', 2 April 2015.</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 10:02, 2 April 2015
Robert Dudley is BP’s group chief executive.[1]
Education
Dudley has a Degree in Chemical Engineering (University of Illinois, USA), an MIM from Thunderbird School of Global Management (USA) and an MBA from SMU (USA).[1]
Career
Dudley 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.[1]
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.[1]
From 2003 to 2008, he was president and chief executive officer of TNK-BP.[1]
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 became group chief executive on 1 October 2010.[1]
Letter to the Telegraph
On 1 April 2015 Dudley was one of 103 business leaders who wrote to the Telegraph praising the British Conservative Party's economic policies and claiming a Labour government would 'threaten jobs and deter investment' in the UK.[2]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Bob Dudley, BP, accessed 9 June 2013.
- ↑ Peter Dominiczak, 100 business chiefs: Labour threatens Britain's recovery, Telegraph, 2 April 2015.
