People: BP PLC (BP)

Mr. Robert W. Dudley serves as Group Chief Executive, Executive Director of BP Plc. He joined the Amoco Corporation in 1979 for whom he worked until its merger with BP in 1998. Following a of posts in the US, the UK, the South China Sea and Moscow, in 2001 he became group vice president responsible for BP’s upstream businesses in Russia, the Caspian Region, Angola, Algeria and Egypt. From 2003 to 2008, he was president and chief executive officer of TNK-BP in Moscow. He was appointed an executive director in April 2009 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. On 1 October 2010 he became BP’s group chief executive.