Edmund John Phillip Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley, (born 20 February 1948) is a British businessman. He is best known for his role as the

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of the energy company BP between 1995 and 2007. This period has been described as the company's "golden period of expansion and diversification". Browne was lauded during this period as he engineered mergers with rival

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and

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, and gained access to Russian oil reserves with the creation of

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. Nicknamed the "Sun King" for his management style, he was also praised for transforming the oil and gas industry's approach to climate change, and for creating a renewable and alternative energy business within BP. He resigned from BP in May 2007 in controversial circumstances surrounding his personal life. He is a former president of the

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(2006 to July 2011), and has served on the boards of

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and

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. Since 2001, he has been a

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member of the

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. Lord Browne is a former partner at Riverstone, where he was co-head of the world's largest renewable energy private equity fund. He received his undergraduate education at the

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and later attended

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Early life and education

Browne was born on 20 February 1948 in

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, Germany. His father was a

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officer who later worked for Anglo-Persian Oil (renamed the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) in 1935), which later became British Petroleum. His mother, Paula, was a Hungarian Jewish

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survivor. Many members of Browne's Jewish maternal family, including his grandparents, were murdered at the Birkenau concentration camp during

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. Browne was educated at

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, and

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, where he earned a First Class BA degree in physics. In addition to his degree in physics from the

, he holds an MS degree in business from Stanford University, California.

Career at BP

At the suggestion of his father, Browne joined BP as an apprentice in 1966 while still at university. He remained with the corporation throughout his career. Between 1969 and 1983, he held a variety of exploration and production posts in

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, New York, San Francisco, London and Canada. In 1984 he became group treasurer and chief executive of BP Finance International. In April 1986, he took up the position of executive vice president and chief financial officer of

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. In 1987, following the BP/Standard merger, in addition to his position as executive vice president and chief financial officer of BP America, he was appointed chief executive officer of Standard Oil Production Company. In 1989, he became managing director and chief executive officer of BP Exploration based in London. In September 1991, he joined BP's board as a managing director. He was appointed group chief executive on 10 June 1995 after the British government sold its last remaining stake in the company. Following the merger of BP and

, he became group chief executive of the combined group on 31 December 1998 and served until 1 May 2007. He was one of the most highly paid executives in the UK, with a remuneration package of approximately £5.7 million in 2004. From 1997, Browne sought to re-brand BP. The company linked itself in its corporate communications with green issues by the overt link of its BP initials with the phrase "Beyond Petroleum". Browne stated that the right to self-determination was crucial for people everywhere, and that he saw his company's mission as to find ways to meet current needs without excessive harm to the environment, while developing future, more sustainable sources of energy. He promised that BP would reduce its own CO₂ emissions by 10% by 2010, a target which was achieved nine years ahead of schedule. An investigation of the fatal explosion at BP's Texas City, Texas, plant on 23 March 2005 that killed 15 workers and injured more than 170 others, resulted in fines and awards being given out for breaches in its health and safety regime.

Resignation

It was announced on 25 July 2006 that Browne would stand down as chief executive of BP in December 2008. There had been press speculation that he had wished to continue beyond this date, but he made it clear that he did not wish to do so. On 6 January 2007, Browne won his first interim

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against the publication of allegations by his former partner, Jeff Chevalier. Browne later disclosed being "terrified" that his sexuality would be revealed publicly. A week later it was announced that his retirement date had been brought forward to July 2007 and that Tony Hayward would succeed him. In April 2007, after a court case lasting over four weeks, Browne appealed to the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords, who ruled that he could not prevent

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from printing allegations about his romantic life and alleged misuse of company funds. Lord Browne resigned from BP on 1 May 2007, and resigned as a

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on 10 May 2007. At the time he faced allegations that he had supported his partner, Canadian Jeff Chevalier, throughout their four-year relationship, and when Chevalier moved back to

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at the end of the relationship, that Browne paid for 12 months of a lease on an apartment. Browne says he felt under pressure to resign due to UK newspaper ''

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''s revelations about his personal life and relationship with Chevalier. As part of a statement made at the time of his resignation, he commented: "In my 41 years with BP, I have kept my private life separate from my business life. I have always regarded my sexuality as a personal matter, to be kept private. It is a matter of deep disappointment that a newspaper group has now decided that allegations about my personal life should be made public." A court accepted that Browne had lied over how he met Chevalier. In a deposition to the court, Browne said the pair had met in a London park; Browne's associates later acknowledged that he had actually met Chevalier via a website called ''Suited and Booted''. However,

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, the presiding judge in the case, said he decided not to refer the matter to the

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, seeing disclosure in the judgement of Lord Browne's behaviour as "probably sufficient punishment", and adding Browne's "willingness to tell a deliberate lie to the court, persisted in for about two weeks, ... is relevant in assessing his own credibility and the overall merits. So too is his willingness casually to 'trash' the reputation of Mr Chevalier and to discredit him in the eyes of the court". BP chairman, Peter Sutherland, characterised claims that company assets and resources had been abused as "unfounded or insubstantive".

Chairman of Cuadrilla

Browne worked as Chairman of Cuadrilla Resources in the early 2010s. He was also a managing partner at Riverstone Holdings, the venture capital firm behind Cuadrilla. Browne left Cuadrilla in 2015 to become executive chairman of L1 Energy, "an oil and gas firm backed by Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman. In 2019, Browne said that "fracking in the UK doesn’t make much sense. I think it was a test to see if it worked. We probably don’t need to do it."

Current activities

Browne joined

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as a senior advisor in 2021 and is co-founder and Chairman of BeyondNetZero, a climate growth equity venture with General Atlantic, targeting investments in companies providing solutions to

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. From 2015 to 2021, Browne was appointed executive chairman of L1 Energy, an energy investment vehicle co-owned by Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman.Stanley Reed
Ex-Chief of BP Named Chairman of Russian Billionaire’s Oil and Gas Group
2 March 2015 In December 2017, it was reported that Lord Browne had led negotiations to create a new joint venture between L1 Energy and BASF, merging their respective oil and gas businesses to create

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,Andrew Ward
‘Big is beautiful’ in oil industry, says former BP chief
10 December 2017 where Browne now chairs the supervisory board. Lord Browne was the UK Government lead non-executive director until January 2015. His remit was to work with Secretaries of State to appoint non-executives to the board of each government department. In April 2021, Browne was appointed co-Chairman of the Prime Minister's Council on Science and Technology. He was president of the

from 2006 to 2011. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 2006. In 1998, he was

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ed by

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and in 2001 named by the House of Lords Appointments Commission as one of the "

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" taking the title Baron Browne of Madingley, of

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in the County of Cambridgeshire, and becoming a

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in the

. In 2000 he was the recipient of the FIRST Responsible Capitalism Award. He was appointed a trustee of the Tate Gallery on 1 August 2007 and chair of the trustees in January 2009. In November 2009 it was announced that Lord Browne would chair an independent review into university tuition fees which reported in October 2010. In June 2010 he was appointed as the Government's Lead Non-Executive Director, charged with recruiting business leaders to reformed departmental boards. In October 2010 it was announced that Lord Browne had been appointed chairman of the advisory board at Stanhope Capital as the asset manager gears up for international expansion. The former chief executive of BP will help advise on attracting investment from charities and endowment trusts, which at present make up a small number of the Stanhope's total clients. He is chairman of the international advisory board of the

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at the University of Oxford, and chairman of the trustees of the

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. He is chairman of the

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, chairman of the Donmar Warehouse Theatre, and since September 2017 has served as chairman of the

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, following the end of his tenure at Tate. He is also a trustee of the Holocaust Educational Trust. Lord Browne sits on the board of directors of IHS Markit and SparkCognition, and is a member of the advisory boards of Edelman, Schillings, and the big data technology companies Afiniti, Kayrros and Windward. Between 2015 and 2020, he served as non-executive chairman of Huawei UK. He is the founder and chairman of the John Browne Charitable Trust, which "supports projects that will make a tangible difference to the lives of people with great potential, particularly those from under-represented backgrounds." Over the past 20 years, the trust has distributed more than £2 million.

Publications

Lord Browne published his memoirs ''Beyond Business'' in February 2010. ''Seven Elements that Changed the World'', an examination of the role of seven scientific elements in history, was published in April 2013. On 17 June 2014 he published '' The Glass Closet: Why Coming Out Is Good Business'', a book discussing the risks and rewards of coming out in business and advocating for a top-down corporate policy of LGBT inclusiveness. Lord Browne is said to be the first openly gay CEO of any Fortune 500 company. # ''Beyond Business'' (February 2010) # ''Seven Elements that Have Changed the World'' (April 2013) # '' The Glass Closet: Why Coming Out Is Good Business'' (May 2014) # ''Connect: How companies succeed by engaging radically with society'' (September 2015) # ''Make, Think, Imagine: Engineering the Future of Civilisation'' (May 2019) In 2015, he was co-author of the report that launched the Global Apollo Programme, which calls for developed nations to commit to spending 0.02% of their GDP for 10 years, to fund co-ordinated research to make carbon-free baseload electricity less costly than electricity from coal by the year 2025.

The Browne Review

On 12 October 2010 the report of the inquiry headed by Lord Browne was published under the title ''Securing a Sustainable Future for Higher Education''. The main recommendation of the report was that the current cap of £3,290 on university tuition fees should be lifted thereby allowing such institutions to determine their own fee structure.

Cuts and safety record controversy

Browne is described by journalist and author

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as responsible for a "ruthless" programme of cost-cutting at BP that compromised safety, and thus the man most responsible for a string of major accidents including the Texas City Refinery explosion (2005) and the Deepwater Horizon explosion (2010). Browne has rejected Bower's "unsubstantiated" and "wholly inaccurate" account. According to ''

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'' newspaper, "Browne's reputation was tarnished by a string of accidents in the US which hastened his retirement", and Browne declined to appear in an hour-long

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documentary on the

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in which Tony Hayward was extensively interviewed, broadcast in November 2010.

Personal life

Lord Browne lists 17th- and 18th-century illustrated Italian books,

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, contemporary art, music, opera and the theatre among his interests. Lord Browne lives in Chelsea, London, where his home was created by the British furniture and interiors designer

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. He is a

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(FREng) and former president of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2006–2011), a

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(FRS), a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM), a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP), a Fellow of the Institute of Petroleum (FInstPet), a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a Companion of the Institute of Management (CIMgt), an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (HonFIChemE), a Fellow of the Geological Society (FGS), an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (HonFIMechE), and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (HonFRSC). Browne has been awarded

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from

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(D.Eng.) and

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(D.Tech.),

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in Birmingham,

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(LLD),

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(D.Sc.), Hull University (D.Sc.),

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(D.Sc.),

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(Hon. D Univ),

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(D.Sc.),

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(Hon DSc 0 Eng) and the

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(Hon D.Univ.),

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, London (Hon D.Sc.),

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, Belgium (D.Sc.),

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(LLD),

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(LLD),

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(D.Eng), D Mendeleyev University of Chemical Technology of Russia,

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(DHLitt). He is an

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and a senior member of

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. In 1999, The Royal Academy of Engineering awarded him the Prince Philip Medal for his outstanding contribution to engineering. In 2000, he received the Golden Plate Award of the

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. Browne kept his homosexuality secret for 50 years. He believes homophobia is not just an issue for employees but for companies and business as a whole.

Arms

References

External links

Globe and Mail, 7 May 2007
On being an engineer – Lord Browne of Madingley FREng FRS
''Ingenia'' magazine, March 2008; Lord Browne speaking at the 2008 Lubbock Lecture on his experiences as an engineer when working on the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline {{DEFAULTSORT:Browne, John 1948 births Living people Academics of London Business School Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Apax Partners BP people Businesspeople in the oil industry English businesspeople English people of Hungarian-Jewish descent English science writers Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Fellows of the Royal Society Knights Bachelor LGBT businesspeople from the United Kingdom LGBT politicians from England LGBT writers from England LGBT Jews LGBT life peers People educated at King's Ely People's peers Crossbench life peers Presidents of the British Science Association Presidents of the Royal Academy of Engineering Stanford Graduate School of Business alumni Stanford Sloan Fellows English male non-fiction writers Global Apollo Programme English Jews Jewish British politicians Life peers created by Elizabeth II Fellows of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining