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University of Southampton Public Lecture: Lord Browne of Madingley
July 15, 2015 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
University of Southampton
18:00 – 19:00, 15 July 2015
We are pleased to announce that The Lord Browne of Madingley will be visiting the University of Southampton as part of our Distinguished Lecture programme.
About the speaker
Lord Browne 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 a Partner of Riverstone Holdings LLC; 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 the UK Government’s Lead Non-Executive Board member in June 2010 (until 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).
Lord Browne was knighted in 1998 and made a life peer in 2001.
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Venue
Building 35, Room 1001, Highfield Campus
Contact for more information
E-mail: events@southampton.ac.uk
