Sustainability Talks In conversation with Lord Browne
In this episode of ‘Sustainability Talks’ hosts Patrick Sheehan and Rob Genieser, Managing Partners at ETF Partners are joined by special guest Lord John Browne, ex CEO of BP to discuss the future of energy in a world going digital. This discussion was originally recorded on 19th November 2020 as part of ETF Partners' 2nd Annual Investor Meeting.
Lord Browne is a Senior Advisor at General Atlantic on climate and Net Zero, providing strategic support and advice to the firm’s investment teams and portfolio companies. He served as Group Chief Executive of international energy company BP from 1995 to 2007, after having joined the company in 1966 as a university apprentice. He led the company through a period of significant growth and transformation, including BP’s merger with Amoco in 1998.
His landmark speech at Stanford University in 1997 established BP as a global leader in the way it thought about and sought to address climate change. In 2007, Lord Browne joined Riverstone, where he was co-head of the world’s largest renewable energy private equity fund until 2015. He is currently Chairman of Wintershall Dea, Europe’s largest independent oil and gas company.
He is independent co-Chairman of the Prime Minister’s Council on Science and Technology, Chairman of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, Chairman of the Courtauld Institute of Art, and a past President of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Lord Browne was the UK Government’s Lead Non-Executive Board Member from 2010 to 2015. He was knighted in 1998 and made a life peer in 2001. Lord Browne is a Fellow and Former President of The Royal Academy of Engineering, and Chairman of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Lord Browne is the author of five books.
Patrick Sheehan is founder and managing partner of ETF Partners (The Environmental Technologies Fund), a venture capital & private equity firm that uses venture capital techniques to address real-world problems -particularly within the realm of environment and sustainability. ETF was one of the first companies to do this in Europe, and as such, change has always been the core of our DNA. ETF invest in change, and the founders we back are the innovators working to drive positive change.
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