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The Fellowship
Hall of Fame
 Lord Browne FREng FRS
President of The Royal Academy of Engineering 2006−
2011
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 Materials, Minerals and Mining, 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
Institution 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
plc as a Managing Director. He was appointed Group
Chief Executive on 10 June 1995. Following the
merger of BP and Amoco, he became Group Chief
Executive of the combined group on 31 December 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 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
Cambridge Judge Business School, Past 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 and a
Trustee of the Eisenhower Fellowship.
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.
His interests are: 17th and
18th Century illustrated Italian books; pre
Columbian art; contemporary Art; music; opera and
the theatre. He is a member of the Athenaeum and the
Savile.
January 2009
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