BP plc has appointed Helge Lund (55) to succeed Carl-Henric Svanberg as chairman of the company. Lund will join the BP board as chairman-designate and a non-executive director on 1 September 2018. He will be appointed chairman on 1 January 2019.
Lund who is also chairman of Novo Nordisk AS in Denmark will stand down with immediate effect from his directorship at Schlumberger, the global oil service group.
Helge Lund served as chief executive of BG Group from 2015 to 2016 when the company merged with Shell. He joined BG Group from Statoil where he served as president & CEO for 10 years from 2004.
He is an operating advisor to Clayton Dubilier & Rice, the US investment firm. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Crisis Group and served as a member on the United Nations Secretary-General’s advisory group on Sustainable Energy in the period 2011-14.
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BP plc has appointed Helge Lund (55) to succeed Carl-Henric Svanberg as chairman of the company. Lund will join the BP board as chairman-designate and a non-executive director on 1 September 2018. He will be appointed chairman on 1 January 2019.
Lund who is also chairman of Novo Nordisk AS in Denmark will stand down with immediate effect from his directorship at Schlumberger, the global oil service group.
Helge Lund served as chief executive of BG Group from 2015 to 2016 when the company merged with Shell. He joined BG Group from Statoil where he served as president & CEO for 10 years from 2004.
He is an operating advisor to Clayton Dubilier & Rice, the US investment firm. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Crisis Group and served as a member on the United Nations Secretary-General’s advisory group on Sustainable Energy in the period 2011-14.
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