- Jeroen van der Veer
</gallery>;Jeroen van der Veer (born October 27, 1947 in Utrecht, Netherlands) is the CEO of oil company Royal Dutch Shell. Van der Veer joined Shell in 1971 where he worked in manufacturing and marketing in the Netherlands, Curaçao and the United Kingdom. Van der Veer graduated in 1971 from Delft University with a MSc in mechanical engineering and went on to earn a MSc in economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam.
- Peter Voser
Peter Voser has spent by far the bulk of his career at Royal Dutch Shell. But the 50-year-old Swiss citizen's most dramatic moments probably remain the two years he served as chief financial officer of ABB (NYSE: ABB - News ) , the Swiss-Swedish electrical engineering group once lauded as one of the world's most respected companies.
- Ken Saro-Wiwa
Kenule "Ken" Beeson Saro-Wiwa (October 10, 1941 - November 10, 1995) was a Nigerian author, television producer, and environmentalist. He was the son of Chief Jim Wiwa. Saro-Wiwa was a member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority whose homelands in the Niger Delta have been targeted for oil extraction since the 1950s. Initially as spokesperson, and then as President, of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), …
- Linda Cook
Linda Zarda Cook, an American CEO of Shell Gas & Power, part of Royal Dutch Shell, in London and later in Canada. The first of a very few female leaders in the male dominated oil industries. She has been recognized as one of the world's leading female entrepreneurs in the recent years. Ms.
- Philip Watts
Sir Philip Watts, KCMG is the former chairman of the multinational energy company Shell. Watts was born on June 25, 1945, in Leicester, England and grew up in the Midlands where his father worked in the textile industry. Watts attended Wyggeston Boys' and Dixie Grammar schools in Leicestershire and the University of Leeds, where he gained a bachelor's degree in physics in 1968.
- Mark Moody-Stuart
Sir Mark Moody-Stuart (Born 15 September 1940, Antigua) was appointed non-executive chairman of Anglo American plc in 2001 and is an ex-chairman of Royal Dutch Shell and a director of HSBC Holdings and of Accenture. He is a Chairman, Foundation for the Global Compact and a member of the Board of Directors of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). He was knighted in 2000 (KCMG). Moody-Stuart became a Managing Director of The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company, …
- Jorma Ollila
Jorma Jaakko Ollila is the Chairman (1992–) and CEO of Nokia Corporation (1992–2006) and Member of the Board of Directors of Ford Motor Company (2000–), UPM-Kymmene (1997–), and Otava Books and Magazines Group Ltd. (1996–). As of June 1 2006 he became the Non-Executive Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell and Non-Executive Chairman of Nokia.
- Oleg Mitvol
Oleg Lvovich Mitvol (born October 31966, Moscow, Soviet Union) is a Russian businessman and government official. In 1997 - 2003 Mitvol was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the JSC newspaper Novye Izvestiya. As media tycoon Boris Berezovsky, owner of the newspaper, had fled from Russia to London, Oleg Mitvol obtained a 76% share in the newspaper from him, but Berezovsky effectively continued to support the newspaper financially.
- Clive Mather
Clive Mather (born 1947) is a British former senior executive with Royal Dutch Shell. He joined Shell in 1969 and retired in 2007. His career included assignments in Brunei, Gabon, South Africa, the Netherlands and the UK. His last position was as President & CEO of Shell Canada Ltd based in Calgary. Mather writes and speaks on business, leadership and Corporate Social Responsibility internationally. He was formerly Chairman of the UK Government/Industry CSR Academy, …
- Owens Wiwa
Monday Owens Wiwa (born October 10, 1957 in Bori, Nigeria) is a medical doctor and human rights activist. He is the brother of Ken Saro-Wiwa, and the son of Ogoni chief Jim Wiwa. Dr. Wiwa is an internationally renowned expert on the effects of globalization, especially as it relates to the highly controversial business practices of Royal Dutch Shell in the Niger Delta. Vice chairman of the Toronto chapter of the Sierra Club and an active member of Amnesty International, Dr.
- Maarten van den Bergh
Maarten van den Bergh (born Apr 19 1942, New York City) is an American-born Dutch national. He is the Deputy Chairman of the BT Group and had previously been the chairman of Lloyds TSB, a financial services company based in the United Kingdom. He became chairman of Lloyds TSB in 2001 and was succeeded by Sir Victor Blank following the annual general meeting in May 2006. Prior to his time at Lloyds, wan den Bergh spent 32 years at Royal Dutch Shell.
- Peter Senge
Peter Senge received a B.S. in engineering from Stanford University, an M.S. in social systems modeling and Ph.D. in management from MIT. He lives with his wife and their two children in central Massachusetts. Peter M. Senge is a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Henri Deterding
Henri Wilhelm August Deterding KBE (Hon), (19 April 1866, Amsterdam - 4 February 1939, St Moritz) was for many years the chairman of Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and then Royal Dutch/Shell, one of the world's largest oil companies. He was made an honorary KBE in 1920 for service to Anglo/Dutch relations, but mainly for his work supplying Allies with petroleum during WWI.
- Calouste Gulbenkian
Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian was an Armenian businessman and philanthropist. He played a major role in making the petroleum reserves of the Middle East available to Western development. By the end of his life he had become one of the world's wealthiest individuals and his art acquisitions considered one of the greatest private collections.
- Deanne Julius
Dr. DeAnne Shirley Julius (born April 14, 1949) is a respected British-based American economist, notable as a founder member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England. She has also worked at the World Bank and extensively in the private sector, and is currently Chairman of Chatham House in London. Julius obtained a BSc in economics from Iowa State University, and a PhD from the University of California.
- Leonard Blavatnik
Len Blavatnik (born 1957) is an American industrialist, born in Russia, and currently living in New York and London. He emigrated with his family from Russia to the U.S. in 1978, and received a masters in computer science from Columbia University and an MBA degree from Harvard Business School in 1989. In the West, he is known as Len Blavatnik. In 1986 he founded Access Industries, a New York-based international industrial group, …
- John Collins
Sir John Collins (born 1941) is a British business executive and director for several corporations. He was born in Rhodesia and graduated from the University of Reading in England in 1964. He worked for the Shell Group for nearly thirty years, starting in their Agribusiness in Africa and rising to be their Chief Executive for Shell, UK from 1990 to 1993. Since then he has held a number of positions, including the chairman of the U.K's National Power from 1998 to 2000.
- Jim Conrad
Jim Conrad is a Canadian politician. He has campaigned for public office on several occasions, and has been active with no fewer than five different political parties throughout the course of his career. In private life, Conrad is a petrochemical engineer with extensive experience in the oil sector. A newspaper report from 1978 lists him as 47 years old, with twenty years experience working for multinational corporations such as Texaco, Shell, …
- Vincent Cable
Dr (John) Vincent Cable (born 9 May 1943, York) is a British Liberal Democrat politician and economist. He is Member of Parliament for Twickenham and has been the Liberal Democrats' Shadow Chancellor since 2003, having previously served as Chief Economist for the oil company Shell. He was elected as deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats in March, 2006.
- Dorothy Thompson
Dorothy Thompson (nee Towers) (born 1923) is a social historian, a leading expert on the Chartist movement. She entered Girton College, Cambridge, in 1942. During the war, her work as an industrial draughtswoman for Royal Dutch Shell interrupted her formal education. Nonetheless, she continued to pursue a career in history and was politically active. She joined the Young Communists, married the historian Edward Thompson in 1948, …
- Linda Christian
Linda Christian (born Blanca Rosa Welter on November 13, 1924 (some sources cite 1923) in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico) is a Hollywood movie actress whose career reached its peak in the 1940s and 1950s. She is also noted for being the first James Bond girl, appearing in a 1954 TV adaptation of the Bond novel "Casino Royale". Christian's mother was of Spanish-French-German descent, and her father was a Dutch executive with Royal Dutch/Shell.
- Jacqueline Cramer
Jacqueline Marian Cramer (Amsterdam, 1951) is Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment in the Fourth Balkenende cabinet for the PvdA.. Previously she was a professor of sustainable entrepreneurship at the Utrecht University and professer of environmental management at the Erasmus University. She is member of the Board of directors at Royal Dutch Shell and a member of the Social-Economic Council.
- Mark Benson
Mark Richard Benson (born 6 July 1958) is a former first class cricketer and now a ICC Elite Panel cricket umpire - he played for England in one Test match and one one-day international in 1986. Benson was born in Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, England. He was educated at Sutton Valence school in Kent and worked for a time as a marketing assistant for Shell. He then took up full time cricket with Kent.
- Marcus Samuel 1st Viscount Bearsted
Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted (5 November 1853 - 17 January 1927) was the founder of the Shell Transport and Trading Company, a precursor to Royal Dutch Shell. His father, also Marcus Samuel, ran a successful import-export business, M. Samuel & Co., trading with the Far East, which Marcus carried on with his brother, Samuel Samuel. Marcus Samuel realised the potential of the oil trade during a trip to the Black Sea in 1890, …
- John Morgan
John Morgan (28 May 1959-9 July 2000) was a British expert on etiquette. His Saturday column in "The Times", "Modern Manners", ran for three years and became an institution. Cultured, erudite, and at times humorous, it answered readers' questions on everything from the correct fork to use at the dinner table to how best to tell friends that the partner you would like to bring to their wedding will be of the same sex as you.
- John Kerr Baron Kerr of Kinlochard
John Olav Kerr, Baron Kerr of Kinlochard GCMG (born 22 February 1942) is a former diplomat and cross-bench member of the House of Lords. Born in Grantown on Spey, he was educated at Glasgow Academy and at Pembroke College, Oxford (BA modern history 1963). He served in the British Diplomatic Service from 1966 until 2002. This included postings at the British Embassy in Moscow, and at the High Commission in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
- Simon Vroemen
Simon Frans Vroemen (born May 11 1969 in Delft, Zuid-Holland) is a former Dutch runner, specialising in the steeplechase. Vroemen has a degree in molecular sciences from the Wageningen University. He wrote his dissertation on the stress physiology of grasshoppers. He has since worked as an engineer for Shell and currently resides at Gieten. Originally a 1500 metre runner, he changed his focus in 1994 to the steeplechase, in which he has been internationally successful.
- George Maxwell Richards
George Maxwell Richards, T.C., CMT, Ph.D., (b. 1931, San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago) is the fourth President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. A chemical engineer by training, Richards was Principal of the St. Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies in Trinidad in 1996. He previously worked for Shell Trinidad Ltd. before joining the University of the West Indies in 1965. He was sworn into office on March 17, 2003 for a five-year term.
- Paul van Buitenen
Paul van Buitenen (born 28 May, 1957 in Breda) is a Member of the European Parliament for the Netherlands and a former European civil servant. He was a Dutch assistant-auditor in the European Commission’s Financial Control Directorate becoming the whistleblower who first drew the attention of a Member of the European Parliament to the irregularities, fraud and mismanagement within the Commission in 1998.
- David Cromwell
Dr. David Cromwell (born 1962 in Glasgow) is a Scottish oceanographer, writer and activist. He is the author of "Private Planet" (Charlbury: Jon Carpenter Publishing, 2001) and of numerous articles published in several newspapers and magazines. Cromwell is currently a monthly ZNet commentator and co-editor of Media Lens. Cromwell spent most of his formative years in Barrhead and Cumbernauld.
- Ronald Oxburgh Baron Oxburgh
Ernest Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh, KBE, FRS, PhD, (born 2 November 1934) is a geologist, a past Rector of Imperial College, and was non-executive chairman of Royal Dutch Shell PLC from 2004-5.
- Abram Games
Abram Games, British graphic designer. Born Abraham Gamse, he was the son of immigrants: a Latvian photographer and a Russo-Polish seamstress. He anglicized his name to Games at age 12 and was essentially an autodidactic designer, having attended London's St. Martins School of Art (today the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design) for only two terms. However, while working as a "studio boy" in commercial design firm Askew-Young in London 1932-36, …
- Claire Curtis-Thomas
Dr Claire Curtis-Thomas, previously Clare Curtis-Tansley (born April 30, 1958) is a British politician and engineer. She is the Labour Member of Parliament for Crosby. Born Claire Curtis-Tansley in Neath, she was educated at the Mynyddbach Comprehensive School for Girls, Swansea, and studied at University College, Cardiff where she was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering, and at Aston University, …
- Kevan Gosper
Richard Kevan Gosper (born 19 December, 1933) was an Australian athlete who mainly competed in the 400 metres. He competed for Australia in the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia where he won the silver medal in the 4 x 400 metre relay with his team mates Graham Gipson, Leon Gregory and David Lean.
- Adolf H. Lundin
Adolf Henrik Lundin, was an independent oil and mining entrepreneur. Born in Sweden in 1932, Adolf Lundin earned an MSc degree in 1956 from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Between 1957 and 1960 he worked as a Petroleum Engineer for the Royal Dutch Shell Group in South America. In 1961 he earned an MBA degree from the Centre d’Etudes Industrielles in Geneva, Switzerland.
- Garry McCoy
Garry McCoy is an Australian motorcycle racer born in Sydney on April 18 1972. In 1996 he signed to privateer Team Bramich and rode a 748s Ducati. It was a great year for McCoy as he learnt from team director, Don Bramich, the fundamentals for managing a successful team. He raced in his first 125cc world championship races in 1992, and his first full season the year after.
- Ahmad Tajuddin
Duli Yang Maha Mulia Sultan Ahmad Tajuddin Akhazul Khairi Waddien ibni Almarhum Sultan Mohammad Jamalul Alam II (commonly referred to as Sultan Ahmad Tajuddin) (June 4, 1913 - June 4, 1950) was the 27th sultan of Brunei from September 11 1924 until his death. After the death of his father, Sultan Muhammad Jamalul Alam II, due to his young and tender age of 11, …
- Rajendra Srivastava
Rajendra K. Srivastava, Ph.D. is the Roberto C. Goizueta Professor of Marketing at the Goizueta Business School of Emory University, is an internationally recognized business consultant whose client list includes GE, LG, Dow Chemicals, Motorola, Shell, Halliburton, The Coca Cola Company, Hallmark, KPMG and Capital One amongst others. He is an educator, researcher, and the winner of many awards and honors.
- Julia Hailes
Julia Hailes is a British author who first came to prominence in 1988, when she wrote "The Green Consumer Guide" which sold a million copies worldwide. She subsequently wrote "The New Green Consumer Guide" published in 2007. She has since worked as an environmental campaigner and sustainability consultant to a number of multi-national companies, including Shell and Marks and Spencers. She was awarded an MBE in 1999.
- Kenneth Baker Baron Baker of Dorking
Kenneth Wilfrid Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking, CH, PC (born November 3 1934), is a British politician, a former Conservative MP and a Life Member of the Tory Reform Group.