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Lord Browne of Madingley

Lord Browne of Madingley

Chairman, Francis Crick Institute

Titles

  • Chairman, L1 Energy (UK) LLP
  • Chairman, Francis Crick Institute
  • Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering
  • Fellow, Royal Society
  • Member, US Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Member, Board of Directors of the Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation at ASU

Biography

Lord Browne was born in 1948.  He holds degrees from Cambridge and Stanford Universities.

He joined BP in 1966 and he joined the board in 1991.  He was appointed Group Chief Executive in 1995 and held that position until May 2007.

He is Chairman of L1 Energy (UK) LLP and Chairman of Frances Crick Institute.  He is a Fellow and former President of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2006-2011), a Fellow of the Royal Society and a foreign member of the US Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was appointed a Trustee of the Tate Gallery on 1 August 2007 and Chairman of the Trustees on 26 January 2009. He was appointed Chairman of the Board of the Donmar Theatre in March 2015.   He was the UK Government’s Lead Non-Executive Board member from June 2010 - 31 January 2015.  He is Chairman of the Trustees of the Queen Elizabeth II Prize for Engineering, Chairman of the International Advisory Board of the Blavatnik School Government at Oxford University and a member of a variety of other trusts and boards. He chaired the Independent Review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance (the Browne Review, 2010).

He was a Partner of Riverstone Holdings LLC from 2007 – 2015; Chairman of the Advisory Board of Apax Partners LLC from 2006 - 2007. He was a non-executive director of Goldman Sachs from 1999 to 2007, a non-executive director of Intel Corporation from 1997 – 2006, a Trustee of The British Museum from 1995-2005, a member of the Supervisory Board of DaimlerChrysler AG from 1998 – 2001 and a non-executive director of SmithKline Beecham from 1996-1999.

He was voted Most Admired CEO by Management Today from 1999 – 2002. 

He was knighted in 1998 and made a life peer in 2001.

His memoirs, “Beyond Business” were published in February 2010; “Seven Elements that Changed the World” in April 2013; “Glass Closet” in May 2014; and “Connect - How Companies Succeed by Engaging Radically with Society” in 2015.