People: BP PLC (BP_pb.L)

Mr. Andrew B. Shilston serves as Senior Non-Executive Independent Director of BP Plc. He trained as a chartered accountant before joining BP as a management accountant. He subsequently joined Abbott Laboratories before moving to Enterprise Oil plc in 1984 at the time of flotation. In 1989 he became treasurer of Enterprise Oil and was appointed finance director in 1993. After the sale of Enterprise Oil to Shell in 2002, in 2003 he became finance director of Rolls-Royce plc until his retirement on 31 December 2011. He has served as a non-executive director on the board of Cairn Energy plc where he chaired the audit committee.