Andy Inglis | Executive Director | BP

Andy Inglis | Executive Director | BP

Job title, Chief Executive, Exploration and Production

Key accountabilities: Andy is a member of the BP board of directors and a member of the BP executive management team.

Other group accountabilities: He is chief executive of BP’s exploration and production business and holds regional responsibility for Russia, the Caspian, the Middle East, North and West Africa, Canada, the Caribbean and South America, Indonesia and Vietnam.

Education: Andy gained an MA in engineering from Pembroke College, University of Cambridge.

Career: Andy joined BP Exploration in 1980, working on various North Sea projects. Following a series of commercial roles in exploration, he became chief of staff for BP Exploration in 1997. Later that year, he led BP’s activities in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico and in 1999 became vice president of the US western gas business. In 2004, Andy was appointed an executive vice president and deputy chief executive of exploration and production.

Andy succeeded Tony Hayward as chief executive of BP’s exploration and production business on 1 February 2007, and also became an executive director of the BP group.

External roles: Andy is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. He was appointed a non-executive director of BAE Systems plc in June 2007.

Andy can kiss his knighthood bye-bye