Lord Browne of Madingley

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Lord Browne of Madingley is a British businessman and former chief executive of BP, noted for his influential role in the global energy industry and public service in engineering and education.


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instanceOf businessperson
chief executive officer
engineer
human
life peer
academicDegree MBA
Master of Arts in Physics
appointedAsLifePeer 2001
areaOfActivity corporate governance
engineering education
public service in government
awardReceived Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Fellow of the Royal Society
Order of the British Empire (Knight Bachelor, later life peer)
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1948-02-20
educatedAt King's College, Cambridge NERFINISHED
Stanford Graduate School of Business
employer BP
endTime 2007 (as CEO of BP)
familyName Browne
fieldOfWork business management
energy industry
petroleum engineering
givenName John
honorificTitle Baron Browne of Madingley
knownFor leading BP’s expansion and mergers in the 1990s
promoting the concept of "beyond petroleum" at BP
public advocacy on climate change and energy policy
languageSpoken English
memberOf House of Lords
name John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley
nationality British
notableWork Beyond Business (memoir)
Seven Elements That Have Changed the World
The Glass Closet: Why Coming Out Is Good Business
parliamentaryGroup Crossbench
placeOfBirth Hamburg
positionHeld Chairman of Cuadrilla Resources
Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Cambridge Judge Business School
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Courtauld Institute of Art
Chairman of the Trustees of the Tate Gallery
Chief Executive Officer of BP
Government Lead Non-Executive Director (UK)
Managing Director at Riverstone Holdings
President of the Royal Academy of Engineering
residence London
sexualOrientation gay
startTime 1995 (as CEO of BP)
titleOfNobility Baron Browne of Madingley, of Cambridge in the County of Cambridgeshire

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Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering ("John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley")
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Royal Academy of Engineering
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Lord Browne of Madingley ("Baron Browne of Madingley")
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Lord Browne of Madingley ("John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley")
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Lord Browne of Madingley ("Baron Browne of Madingley, of Cambridge in the County of Cambridgeshire")
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