Company
BP
Job Title
Group Chief Executive
Speaker Bio
Bob Dudley became group chief executive of BP in 2010.
He joined the oil and gas industry in 1979, and has held a variety of engineering, commercial and strategy posts in the United States, Britain, Russia and China. In 2009, Mr. Dudley was appointed to the BP board with accountability for the Americas and Asia. From 2003 to 2008, he served as president and chief executive officer of TNK-BP in Moscow. Following BP’s sale of TNK-BP and acquisition of a 20% stake in Rosneft, he joined the Rosneft board in 2013.
Previous roles include vice president for alternative and renewable energy activities, and vice president responsible for BP’s upstream business in Russia, the Caspian region and Africa. Mr. Dudley’s external roles include membership of various business councils, the U.K.-U.A.E. C.E.O. Forum, the Advisory Board of the Tsinghua School of Economics and Management in Beijing, and the Russian Geographical Society. He is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Mr. Dudley has a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois, a master’s degree in international management from Thunderbird School of Global Management in Arizona, and an M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
He joined the oil and gas industry in 1979, and has held a variety of engineering, commercial and strategy posts in the United States, Britain, Russia and China. In 2009, Mr. Dudley was appointed to the BP board with accountability for the Americas and Asia. From 2003 to 2008, he served as president and chief executive officer of TNK-BP in Moscow. Following BP’s sale of TNK-BP and acquisition of a 20% stake in Rosneft, he joined the Rosneft board in 2013.
Previous roles include vice president for alternative and renewable energy activities, and vice president responsible for BP’s upstream business in Russia, the Caspian region and Africa. Mr. Dudley’s external roles include membership of various business councils, the U.K.-U.A.E. C.E.O. Forum, the Advisory Board of the Tsinghua School of Economics and Management in Beijing, and the Russian Geographical Society. He is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Mr. Dudley has a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois, a master’s degree in international management from Thunderbird School of Global Management in Arizona, and an M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
