1. Robert Warren Dudley was born on September 14,1955 and is an American businessman who is a former group chief executive of BP.
19 Facts About Bob Dudley
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Bob Dudley had been 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.
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Bob Dudley is the chair of the international industry-led Oil and Gas Climate Initiative.
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Bob Dudley is a former board member of Rosneft, the Russian state-owned energy giant.
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Bob Dudley was born in Queens, New York, grew up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and graduated from Hinsdale Central High School in suburban Chicago in 1973.
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Bob Dudley received a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois, where he joined the fraternity Phi Kappa Psi and served as District 3 Archon.
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Bob Dudley then obtained a master of international management degree from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and an MBA from Southern Methodist University.
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Bob Dudley worked in a variety of positions including negotiating deals in the South China Sea.
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Bob Dudley worked in the oil industry for a long time including Amoco in Moscow from 1994 to 1997.
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Bob Dudley was appointed when BP went into partnership with a group of Russian billionaires known as AAR.
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In June 2008, Bob Dudley left Russia in haste when his visa was not renewed.
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Wikileaks revealed that Bob Dudley strongly suspected Igor Sechin, Russia's deputy prime minister and chairman of the state-owned energy company, Rosneft, for organizing a boardroom coup that led him to feel life-threatened.
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On July 27,2010, BP announced that Bob Dudley would succeed Tony Hayward as their group chief executive on October 1,2010.
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In March 2013, Bob Dudley was offered a seat on the board of Rosneft, the Russian state-owned energy company.
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Bob Dudley left the board of Rosneft in February 2022, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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Bob Dudley retired in 2020, and was succeeded by Bernard Looney.
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In July 2021, Bob Dudley joined Axio Global a cyber risk management software company, as chairman.
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Bob Dudley was part of a consortium of investors in Axio's Series B $23M financing round, led by Temasek's ISTARI.
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Bob Dudley is married to Mary Bob Dudley, and they have two children.