Vivienne Cox

Bio

Former CEO and Executive Vice President of BP Alternative Energy and a former member of the BP Executive Management Team. Joined BP Chemicals in a commercial role moving to BP Exploration in 1985, and then BP Finance. In 1990, set up the commodity derivatives group within oil trading and in 1996 managed the development of new business in central and Eastern Europe. In 1998 became the CEO of Air BP; managing the sales of branded fuels in over 90 countries worldwide. Pulled together all BP's trading activities in Oil, Gas, Chemicals and Finance into a single organisation. Executive Vice President from 2004 and in 2008 brought together all of BP's activities in renewables. Board of Rio Tinto plc, the Board of INSEAD, the Supervisory Board of Vallourec and is the Patron of the St Francis Hospice Charity, UK. Bachelors degree, an MA in Chemistry from Oxford University, an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Hull and an MBA at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France.