Robert Warren "Bob" Dudley is the Group Chief Executive and a director of BP. He had served as President and Chief Executive of TNK-BP and on June 18, 2010, was assigned to be BP executive in charge of the Gulf Coast Restoration Organization responding to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Background
Dudley was born in Queens, New York, grew up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi,and graduated from Hinsdale Central High School in suburban Chicago in 1973. He received a BS in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois, where he joined the fraternity Phi Kappa Psi and served as District 3 Archon. Then he obtained an MIM degree from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and an MBA from Southern Methodist University.
Education
He received a BS in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois, where he joined the fraternity Phi Kappa Psi and served as District 3 Archon. Then he obtained an MIM degree from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and an MBA from Southern Methodist University
Career
He joined Amoco in 1979. He worked in a variety of positions including negotiating deals in the South China Sea. In 1994 to 1997 he worked for Amoco in Moscow. He became a general manager for strategy. After BP acquired Amoco he assumed a similar position at BP.
From 2003-2008 he was president and chief executive of TNK-BP.] He was appointed when BP went into partnership with a group of Russian billionaires known as AAR.
On June 23, 2010 he was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of BP's Gulf Coast Restoration Organization working with the oil leakage in the Gulf of Mexico, which affects five US states.
On July 27, 2010, BP announced that Dudley would succeed Tony Hayward as BP's Group Chief Executive on October 1, 2010. Dudley was also appointed to the board of directors of BP