George David | The board | BP

George David | The board | BP
George David was appointed a non-executive director of BP in 2008. He is a member of the chairman’s, the audit and the remuneration committees.

Mr David began his career in The Boston Consulting Group before joining the Otis Elevator Company in 1975. He held various roles in Otis and later in UTC, following Otis’s merger with UTC in 1977. In 1992, he became UTC’s chief operating officer. He served as UTC’s chief executive officer from 1994 until 2008 and as chairman from 1997 until his retirement on 31 December 2009.

Mr David is a former director of Citigroup Inc. and is vice chairman of the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

Mr David was awarded the Order of Friendship from the Russian Federation in 1999 and admitted to the French Légion d’Honneur in 2002.