John browne bp biography of michael

This week, we speak with Sir John Browne, executive chairman of L1 Energy and chairman of the supervisory board of Wintershall DEA. As group chief executive of BP from 1995 to 2007, he led the company through a period of major expansion.

Browne studied physics at Cambridge, and received an MS from Stanford. He is chairman of the Francis Crick Institute on genetic research, and chairman of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. Browne is the author of numerous books, most recently, Make, Think, Imagine: Engineering the Future of Civilisation.

Browne explains why engineering is responsible for so much of humanity’s progress, it is the golden thread throughout everything: heath care, economics, defense, transportation, shelter and more. Browne notes that “Engineers have saved far more lives than all of the doctors in the world” through their inventions.

Browne discusses the BP campaign “Beyond Petroleum,”