Bob Dudley

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Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden meet with BP executives in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, June 16, 2010, Pictured, from left, are BP CEO Tony Hayward, BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg, BP General Counsel Rupert Bondy, BP Managing Director Robert Dudley, Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, Attorney General Eric Holder, and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.

Robert "Bob" Dudley (born c. 1955 New York) is an executive with BP. He had served as President and Chief Executive of TNK-BP and on June 18, 2010, was assigned to be BP executive in charge of the Gulf Coast Restoration Organisation responding to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

He grew up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, received a BA in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois, an MIM degree from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and an MBA from Southern Methodist University.

He joined Amoco in 1979. He worked in a variety of positions including negotiating deals in the South China Sea. In 1994 to 1997 he worked for Amoco in Moscow. He became a general manager for strategy. After BP acquired Amoco he assumed a similar position at BP.

From 2003-2008 he was president and chief executive of TNK-BP.

On April 6, 2009 he became a director of BP and was given oversight of the company's activities in the Americas and Asia.

On June 23, 2010 he was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of BP'ss Gulf Coast Restoration Organization working with the oil leakage in the Mexican Gulf. As head of the organization, he is outmost responsible for the cleaning work in the Gulf, the cooperation with authorities, informing the public about BP's activities surrounding the disaster and analyzing the damage caused by the disaster.

Bob Dudley is married with Mary Dudley. They have two children.