Board of Directors
1. Sir Robert Wilson KCMG
Chairman, (age 66)
Appointed Chairman in January 2004, having been a
Non-Executive Director since September 2002.
Committee membership: Chairman’s*,
Finance*, Nominations*, Remuneration and Sustainability.
Skills and experience: Most of
Sir Robert’s career was with Rio Tinto where he became Chief Executive in
1991 and then Executive Chairman from 1997 until his retirement in 2003.
From 2003-2009, he was non-executive chairman of The Economist Group.
External appointments: Sir Robert
is currently senior independent director of GlaxoSmithKline plc.
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2. Frank Chapman
Chief Executive (age 56)
Appointed Chief Executive in October 2000, having
been appointed to the Board in February 1997.
Committee membership: Group
Executive*, Chairman’s, Finance and Sustainability.
Skills and experience: Frank
joined British Gas plc in November 1996 as Managing
Director, Exploration and Production. He is an engineer
and has worked in the oil and gas industry for 35 years.
Prior to joining the Group, he spent a total
of 22 years with Shell and BP.
External appointments: No
external director appointments.
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3. Ashley Almanza
Chief Financial Officer and Executive
Vice President & Managing Director, Europe & Central
Asia (age 46)
Appointed Chief Financial Officer in August 2002 and
assumed interim responsibility for the management
of the Europe & Central Asia region in November
2009.
Committee membership: Group
Executive, Chairman’s and Finance.
Skills and experience: Ashley
joined British Gas plc in 1993 and has held a number
of key management roles in BG Group, including Group
Finance Director, seeing the Group through the de-merger
of Lattice in 2000. He is currently responsible for
the management of the Europe and Central Asia region,
Group finance, tax, treasury, investor relations,
mergers and acquisitions, internal audit and secretariat.
A chartered accountant with a MBA from London Business
School, he serves as chairman of The 100 Group, which
represents finance directors of the UK’s largest
listed companies.
External appointments: No
external director appointments.
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4. Martin Houston
Executive Director and Executive Vice
President & Managing Director, Americas and Global
LNG (age 52)
Appointed to the Board in February 2009.
Committee membership: Group
Executive and (from February 2010) Sustainability.
Skills and experience: Martin
joined British Gas plc in 1983 and was appointed
BG Group Executive Vice President in 2000. Based
in Houston, he is responsible for the Group’s activities
in the Americas and for the Group’s global Liquefied
Natural Gas (LNG) activities. Martin has gained extensive
international experience from a wide variety of technical,
commercial and management roles and has played a
leading role in developing the Group’s LNG business.
He is a fellow of the Geological Society of London.
External appointments: No
external director appointments.
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5. Baroness Hogg
Non-Executive Director (age 63)
Appointed as a Non-Executive Director in January 2005.
The Board nominated her as Senior Independent Director
from 1 January 2009.
Committee membership: Audit,
Nominations and Remuneration*.
Skills and experience: Baroness
Hogg is a former head of the Prime Minister’s Policy
Unit and has extensive experience of business, government
and the media, including her former role as a Governor
of the BBC.
External appointments: Baroness
Hogg is chairman of 3i Group plc and Frontier Economics
Ltd and is deputy chairman of the Financial Reporting
Council. In May 2010, Baroness Hogg will become chairman
of the Financial Reporting Council.
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6. Peter Backhouse
Non-Executive Director (age 58)
Appointed as a Non-Executive Director in July 2000.
Committee membership: Audit
and Sustainability.
Skills and experience: Peter
was formerly executive vice president, refining and
marketing at BP Amoco plc. Previous roles at BP included
deputy chief executive of BP Oil and chief executive
of BP Oil Europe. He gained considerable gas experience
in international LNG and in UK natural gas as head
of BP’s UK gas marketing business.
External appointments: Peter
is a member of the advisory board of Carlyle/Riverstone
Energy Partners, a US private equity fund.
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7. Jürgen Dormann
Non-Executive Director (age 70)
Appointed as a Non-Executive Director in June 2005.
Committee membership: Remuneration
and Sustainability.
Skills and experience: Jürgen
was chairman of Adecco S.A. (Switzerland) until
31 December 2008 and was chairman of Swiss-based ABB
Ltd from November 2001 to May 2007, having been a
non-executive director since May 1998. Prior to his
roles at ABB, he had a successful career at Hoechst
and Aventis spanning almost 40 years. He has previously
been a non-executive director of IBM Corporation
and vice-chairman of Sanofi-Aventis S.A.
External appointments: Jürgen
is chairman of the board at Metall Zug AG (Switzerland)
and Sulzer Limited (Switzerland).
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8. Sir David Manning GCMG CVO
Non-Executive Director (age 60)
Appointed as a Non-Executive Director in July 2008.
Committee membership: Sustainability.
Skills and experience: Sir David was a member of
the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for 35 years,
serving in Warsaw, New Delhi, Paris, Moscow, Tel
Aviv and Brussels. He retired from the Diplomatic
Service in 2008 after four years as British Ambassador
to the United States. Sir David has previously been
a non-executive director of Lloyds Banking Group plc.
External appointments: Sir
David is also a non-executive director of Lockheed
Martin UK Holdings Ltd, and is a trustee of Turner
Contemporary.
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9. Dr John Hood
Non-Executive Director (age 58)
Appointed as a Non-Executive Director in April 2007.
Committee membership: Audit
and Sustainability*.
Skills and experience:
Dr Hood was vice-chancellor of the University of
Oxford from 2004 until September 2009. He was formerly
vice-chancellor of the University of Auckland and
a member of the Growth and Innovation Advisory Board
and the Enterprise Council of the Prime Minister
of New Zealand. He has also been a director of a
number of New Zealand-based companies including the
Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd and ASB Bank Limited,
a subsidiary of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia,
and was chairman of Tonkin & Taylor Ltd.
External appointments: Dr
Hood is currently non-executive chairman of Matakina
Technology Ltd in New Zealand and became president
and chief executive officer of the Robertson Foundation
in January 2010.
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10. Mark Seligman
Non-Executive Director (age 54)
Appointed as a Non-Executive Director in December 2009.
Committee membership: Audit
and Sustainability (both from February 2010).
Skills and experience: A
chartered accountant, Mark has held senior roles
at Barclays de Zoete Wedd and SG Warburg & Co Ltd.
He is a former chairman of UK Investment Banking
at Credit Suisse and a former member of the bank’s
Global Investment Banking Executive Board.
External appointments: Mark
is currently a senior adviser to Credit Suisse. He
is a non-executive director of G4S plc and serves
as an alternate member of the Panel of Takeovers
and Mergers and is chairman of the Industrial Development
Advisory Board.
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11. Lord Sharman
Non-Executive Director (age 67)
Appointed as a Non-Executive Director in October 2000.
Committee membership: Audit* and
Nominations.
Skills and experience: A chartered accountant,
Lord Sharman was chairman of KPMG International from
1997 to 1999, having been senior partner since 1994.
External appointments: Lord
Sharman is non-executive chairman of Aviva plc and
a non-executive director of Reed Elsevier plc.
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12. Philippe Varin
Non-Executive Director (age 57)
Appointed as a Non-Executive Director in May 2006.
Committee membership: Audit
and Remuneration.
Skills and experience: Until April
2009, Philippe had spent six years as chief executive
of Corus, during which time he led the merger with
Tata Steel, India in 2007. Prior to this, Philippe
spent 25 years with the Pechiney Group, most latterly
as senior executive vice president of the aluminium
sector and a member of Pechiney’s executive committee.
External appointments: Philippe
was appointed chairman of the managing board of PSA Peugeot
Citroen in June 2009.
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