Two senior women are leaving BP in the first big changes to the company’s management team since the departure last year of chief executive Bernard Looney in a scandal over his past relationships with colleagues, reports the Financial times.
Chief technology and innovation officer Leigh-Ann Russell is leaving for an external job after 18 years at BP, while Anja-Isabel Dotzenrath, who joined in 2022 to head BP’s gas and low-carbon business, will retire, the FTSE 100 oil major said in a statement on Thursday.
Russell will be replaced by Looney’s former chief of staff Emeka Emembolu. William Lin, who has been on the leadership team since 2020, will take on responsibility for gas and low-carbon energy.
The changes will shrink the size of the leadership group from 11 to 10 and will also reduce the number of women on the team from six under Looney to five.
However, BP has significantly increased the number of women serving in senior roles at the company in recent years. Kate Thomson became BP’s first female chief financial officer in February and about a third of the top 300 leadership roles at the company are also held by women. At rival Shell, four of the seven members of the senior team are women, while France’s TotalEnergies has two women on its nine-person executive committee.
BP’s chief executive, Murray Auchincloss, who was confirmed in January as Looney’s permanent replacement, said the changes would “reduce complexity within BP” and help it to deliver as a “simpler, more focused and higher value company”.
Full story at Two senior women leave BP in first big shake-up since Bernard Looney’s exit (ft.com)
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