-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, KOFHF8dmQ87eHp9H3Zdu+JbQjVDDWsCKjiLmeqQaEE+sG6FVvTKConc6jecrWr/e vuxIPEaHhMMPMWY0O5hGiA== 0001191638-10-000213.txt : 20100301 0001191638-10-000213.hdr.sgml : 20100301 20100301075325 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001191638-10-000213 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 6-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20100301 FILED AS OF DATE: 20100301 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20100301 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: BP PLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000313807 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PETROLEUM REFINING [2911] IRS NUMBER: 000000000 STATE OF INCORPORATION: X0 FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 6-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-06262 FILM NUMBER: 10641996 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1 ST JAMES'S SQUARE STREET 2: LONDON CITY: SW1Y 4PD STATE: X0 ZIP: 00000 BUSINESS PHONE: 442074964000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: BP AMERICA INC. STREET 2: 501 WESTLAKE PARK BOULEVARD CITY: HOUSTON STATE: TX ZIP: 77079 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: BP AMOCO PLC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19990104 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: BRITISH PETROLEUM CO PLC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19970226 6-K 1 bp201003016k.htm IAN DAVIS TO JOIN BP BOARD

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
 

      Washington, D.C. 20549
 

 

      Form 6-K
 

       Report of Foreign Issuer
 

       Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16 of
           the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
 


          for the period ended 01 March, 2010       
 

           BP p.l.c.
                 (Translation of registrant's name into English)
 
 

                 1 ST JAMES'S SQUARE, LONDON, SW1Y 4PD, ENGLAND
                    (Address of principal executive offices)
 
 

     Indicate  by check mark  whether the  registrant  files or will file annual
     reports under cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F.
 
 
Form 20-F        |X|          Form 40-F
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     Indicate by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the information
     contained in this Form is also thereby  furnishing  the  information to the
     Commission  pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of
     1934.
 
 

Yes                            No        |X|
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press release

 


March 1, 2010

 
 
IAN DAVIS TO JOIN THE BP BOARD
 
 

The board of BP announced today
that it has appointed Mr. Ian Davis as a non-executive director of BP p.l.c. with effect from April 2, 2010. Mr. Davis has worked for McKinsey & Company since 1979. Between 2003 and 2009 he was Chairman and Worldwide Managing Director of the firm. He will be retiring from McKinsey in July 2010.
 


Notes to editors:
 

Ian Davis is currently Senior Partner of McKinsey & Company. He served as Chairman and Worldwide Managing Director of McKinsey from 2003 to 2009. Prior to that he was Managing Partner of McKinsey'spractice in the UK and Ireland. In his thirty years with McKinsey, Mr Davis served as a consultant a range of global organisations
across the private, public and not-for-profit sectors.

 
He is a member of the Board of Teach for All, an Advisory Director of the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Centre, a member of the President's Council at the University of Tokyo, and a member of the Chancellor's Court at the University of Oxford.
 
A photograph of Mr Davis is available from the BP press office
 

BP's Board: www.bit.ly/BP_board
 



Further information
:
 
BP press office:
+44 (0)20 7496 4076
bppress@bp.com
 
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      SIGNATURES


 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
 
 
 
 

BP p.l.c.
(Registrant)
 


Dated:  01 March, 2010

/s/ D. J. PEARL
..............................
D. J. PEARL
Deputy Company Secretary

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