BP’s new

CEO

Robert
Dudley

Early life
Born 1955, in New York; raised
in Mississippi
Education Chemical engineering
degree, University of Illinois;
master’s in information
management, Thunderbird School
of Global Management; MBA,
Southern Methodist University

Career
1979-97 Holds a variety of jobs for
oil giant Amoco; named general
manager for strategy, 1997

1999 A year after Amoco merges

with BP, named executive assistant
to a group chief executive officer

2000-03 Vice president for BP’s

renewables and alternative energy;
then vice president for holdings in
Russia, Caspian, northern Africa
regions
2003-08 President, CEO of
TNK-BP, a Russia-BP joint venture
2009 Becomes a BP director,
overseeing U.S. and Asia; June
2010, takes over BP’s response
to Gulf of Mexico spill
2010 Named new CEO of BP, the
first non-Briton to hold the position
Source: BP, Reuters
Graphic: Judy Treible,
Lee Hulteng © 2010 MCT