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The Fellowship
Hall of Fame
Lord Browne FREng FRS
President of The Royal Academy of Engineering 2006−
present
Lord Browne was born in 1948,
he joined BP in 1966 as a university apprentice. He
holds a degree in Physics from Cambridge University
and an MS in Business from Stanford University,
California. He has also been awarded Honorary
Doctorates from Heriot Watt University (D.Eng) and
Robert Gordon University (D.Tech), Dundee University
(LLD), Warwick University (D.Sc), Hull University (D.Sc),
Cranfield University (D.Sc), Sheffield Hallam
University (Hon. D Univ), University of Buckingham (D.Sc),
University of Belfast (Hon DSc 0 Eng) and the
University of Surrey (Hon D. Univ), Imperial
College, London (Hon D.Sc), (Leuven University,
Belgium (D.Sc), Thunderbird (LLD), University of
Notre Dame (LLD), Colorado School of Mines (D.Eng),
D Mendeleyev University of Chemical Technology of
Russia, Arizona State University (DHLitt). He is an
Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge and
a Senior Member of St Antony’s College, Oxford. He
is a Fellow and President of the Royal Academy of
Engineering, a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow
of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, a Fellow
of the Institute of Physics, a Fellow of the
Institute of Petroleum, a Fellow of the American
Academy of Arts & Sciences, a Companion of the
Institute of Management, an Honorary Fellow of the
Institute of Chemical Engineers, an Honorary Fellow
of the Geological Society, an Honorary Fellow of the
Institution of Mechanical Engineers and an Honorary
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Between
1969 and 1983, he held a variety of exploration and
production posts in Anchorage, New York, San
Francisco, London and Canada.
In 1984 he became
Group Treasurer and Chief Executive of BP Finance
International.
In April 1986, he took up the
position of Executive Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer of The Standard Oil Company in
Cleveland, Ohio. In 1987, following the BP/Standard
merger, in addition to his position as Executive
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of BP
America, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of
Standard Oil Production Company.
In 1989, he became
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of BP
Exploration based in London. In September 1991, he
joined the Board of The British Petroleum Company p.l.c. as a Managing Director. He was appointed
Group Chief Executive on June 10, 1995. Following
the merger of BP and Amoco, he became Group Chief
Executive of the combined group on December 31, 1998
until 1 May 2007.
He is Managing Director and
Managing Partner (Europe) of Riverstone Holdings
LLC. He was appointed a Trustee of the Tate Gallery
on 1 August 2007. He was appointed to the board of
Foster & Partners in October 2007. He was Chairman
of the Advisory Board of Apax Partners LLC from 2006
- 2007. He was a non-executive director of Goldman
Sachs from 1999 to 2007, a non-executive director of
Intel Corporation from 1997 – 2006, a Trustee of The
British Museum from 1995-2005, a member of the
Supervisory Board of DaimlerChrysler AG from 1998 –
2001 and a non-executive director of SmithKline
Beecham from 1996-1999.
He is Chairman of the
International Advisory Board of the School of
Economics and Management, Tsinghua University,
Chairman of the Cambridge Judge Business School,
President of the British Association for the
Advancement of Science and Emeritus Chairman of the
Advisory Board of the Stanford Graduate School of
Business. He is a Trustee of the Cambridge
University Foundation, and a member of the Guild of
Cambridge Benefactors. He is a member (and former
Chairman) of the British American Business Inc. He
is a member of the board of Catalyst; he is an
honorary Trustee of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra,
an honorary counsellor of the Conference Board,
Inc., a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy
Association, a Trustee of the Eisenhower Fellowship
and a Vice President of the Prince of Wales Business
Leaders Forum.
In 1999, the Royal Academy of
Engineering awarded him the Prince Philip Medal for
his outstanding contribution to the field of
Engineering. The Stanford Business School Alumni
Association presented him with the Ernest C Arbuckle
Award in 2001, in recognition of excellence in the
field of management leadership. Other awards include
the Henry Shaw Medal of the Missouri Botanical
Gardens, the Gold Medal of the Institute of
Management, the Institute of Energy Melchett Medal
(2001), the Society of Petroleum Engineers Public
Service Award (2002), the Institution of Chemical
Engineers Commemorative Medal (2003), the inaugural
Channing Corporate Citizenship Award from British
American Business Inc. (2004), the World Petroleum
Congress Dewhurst Award (2005), the Dwight D
Eisenhower Leadership Award from the Business
Council for International Understanding.
He was
voted Most Admired CEO by Management Today from 1999
– 2002. He was knighted in 1998 and made a life peer
in 2001.
October 2007
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