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Other group accountabilities: Corporate communications, planning and performance management, strategy, economics, diversity and inclusion, western hemisphire and history unit, group policy development and leadership education.
Education: David Allen has a degree in Chemistry from Oxford University. He remained at the University to pursue research into gas laser fluorescence, leading to a Doctorate in Chemistry.
Career: He joined BP Gas International in 1978, handling Middle East and Far East gas trading before moving to BP's corporate offices in New York. He returned to London in the mid-1980s, taking up management roles in BP Exploration. In 1986 he moved to BP's corporate planning department, following which he was appointed to lead BP's international crude oil trading activities. In 1990 he became general manager, European Gas and, subsequently, planning manager, BP Exploration Europe.
In 1995, he became general manager, commercial BP Exploration and subsequently took over the role of director of planning for the BP group. In 1997 he joined the executive committee of BP Exploration. Following the merger of BP and Amoco in January 1999 he became group vice president planning of the newly-formed BP Amoco p.l.c. and was appointed executive vice president in 2000. In 2003 he joined the main board of BP p.l.c. and became a managing director.
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