Douglas Flint | The board | BP

Douglas Flint | The board | BP

Douglas Flint was appointed to the board of BP as a non-executive director in 2005. He is chairman of the audit committee and a member of the chairman’s and the nomination committees.

He began his career with Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co. (now KPMG) and was made a partner in 1988. In 1995, Mr Flint joined the HSBC Group as group finance director of HSBC Holdings plc and in 2009 his role was broadened to chief financial officer, executive director risk and regulation.

He was chairman of the Financial Reporting Council’s review of the Turnbull Guidance on Internal Control and served on the Accounting Standards Board and the Standards Advisory Council of the International Accounting Standards Board between 2001 and 2004. He also served on the Shipley Working Group on Public Disclosure and co-chaired the Group of Thirty Report on Enhancing Public Confidence in Financial Reporting.

Mr Flint was awarded a CBE in 2006.