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BP plc

euro adhoc: BP PLC
Board of Directors (Appointments and Changes)
BP BOARD APPOINTMENTS (E)

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July 1, 2004

BP BOARD APPOINTMENTS

The board of BP announced today that it has appointed Sir Tom
McKillop as a non-executive director and Mr Iain Conn as an executive
director, both with immediate effect.

Sir Tom, 61, is the chief executive of AstraZeneca PLC. He joined ICI
in 1969 and has held a number of senior technical and general
management positions within ICI and Zeneca. Sir Tom is currently a
non-executive director of Lloyds TSB Group and chairman of British
Pharma Group.

Iain Conn, 41, joined BP in 1985 and has held a number of posts in
supply and trading, refining and marketing, exploration and
production and in BP Group headquarters. Most recently, he was chief
executive of BP's Petrochemicals segment.

As Group executive officer, he will have regional responsibility for
Europe, including the UK, together with Russia, the Middle East, the
Caspian and Africa.  He will also be responsible for BP's major
functional divisions, including health, safety and environment, human
resource management, marketing, technology, digital business,
security, procurement and pensions operations.

Notes to Editors:

·A biography of Mr Conn is attached and photographs are 
    available from the BP Press Office.

IAIN CONN

In his role as an executive director of the BP Group, Iain Conn has
regional responsibility for Europe, including the UK, together with
Russia, the Middle East, the Caspian and Africa. He has functional
responsibility for Health, Safety & Environment, Human Resource
Management, Marketing, Technology, Digital Business, Security,
Procurement and Pensions Operations.
He was previously chief executive of BP's petrochemicals segment, the
third largest petrochemicals business in the world, with over 16,000
employees and large-scale manufacturing plants in the Americas,
Europe and Asia.
Before that he worked in BP's downstream segment as group vice
president responsible for BP's marketing operations in Europe. He was
also responsible for the integration of Veba Oel into the BP
organisation and had regional responsibility for BP in Europe.
Additionally he was a member of the executive committee for BP's
global refining and marketing business and in 2000 he held
responsibility for markets in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

His career with BP began in commercial refining and oil trading but
over the last 12 years he has spent time in various roles in
Exploration & Production, Refining & Marketing and in Group
headquarters.

Iain was born in Edinburgh, educated in Musselburgh, Scotland and
subsequently studied chemical engineering and management at The
Imperial College, London.

Iain is Chairman of the Advisory Board of The Imperial College London
Tanaka Business School.

Personal interests include family, fishing, skiing, music (blues and
classical), saxophone, antiques, food & wine, and travel.

Iain is married and has three children.

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Further information:

BP Press Office, London tel: +44 (0)207 496 4076

Branche: Energy
ISIN: GB0007980591
WKN: 850517
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