John Browne (Lord Browne of Madingley)

Type: Person

Name: John Browne (Lord Browne of Madingley)

Title: Ex-CEO of BP plc

Date of Birth: 20/02/1948

Place of Birth: Hamburg

Nationality: United Kingdom

Fact Sheet: Biography for John Browne (Lord Browne of Madin...

First reported 6 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 1 reports

Tony Hayward

A silver leadership bullet that may hurt the head

2 min agoMoves to subject chief executive candidates to frontal lobe testing is a step too far – and may create more problems than its solves.You must be logged in to read this articleNot a member yet? Register today ›Business Spectator is available on ... [Published Business Spectator - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Leadership, Tony Hayward, Silver

First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 reports

Policy paper: Government Lead Non-Executive reports

Updated: Added new report: 'Getting a grip: how to improve major project execution and control in government'The Government Lead Non-Executive, Lord Browne of Madingley, has published his first annual report, setting out progress since his appointment ... [Published Cabinet Office - 9 hours ago]

Entities: John Browne (Lord Browne of Madingley), HM Treasury, Corporate Governance

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

John Browne (Lord Browne of Madingley)

City Diary: Slow going for Lord Browne of Madingley's Twitter debut

Ex-BP boss Lord Browne of Madingley is no Warren Buffett. ... [Published Telegraph - May 23 2013]

Entities: John Browne (Lord Browne of Madingley), Twitter, Warren E Buffett

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Google Inc

Google 'exploits content creators'

US "corporate raiders" like Google and Yahoo should be subject to a law to stop them exploiting British creative workers for their own profits, a former Advertising Association chief executive has said.Baroness Buscombe said creative workers, whose content ... [Published Orange UK - May 22 2013]

Entities: Google Inc, Search Engines, Tumblr Inc, Intellectual Property

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

City Spy at Chelsea Flower Show: Diamond returns to polite society

The appearance of Diamond was particularly notable as the former Barclays chief executive has been keeping a very low profile since he was forced out in the wake of the Libor fixing scandal last July amid talk the American would prefer to live in his ... [Published London Evening Standard - May 21 2013]

Entities: Tony Hayward, John Browne (Lord Browne of Madingley), Lionel Barber, Richard Desmond

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

PA Consulting Group

Three ways to build that elusive business ethos in Whitehall

Question marks hang over the private sector leaders recruited to shake up the civil service, but the government shouldn't give up There has been a significant amount of criticism recently of private sector business leaders working as non-executives in ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 21 2013]

Entities: Leadership, John Browne (Lord Browne of Madingley), PA Consulting Group

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

NM Rothschild & Sons Ltd

Stanhope Capital adds former Chancellor Norman Lamont to investment committee

Global investment firm Stanhope Capital has named former Chancellor of the Exchequer Lord Lamont to its investment committee.Stanhope oversees close to $7.5bn on behalf of wealthy families, charities and other institutions around the world and was founded ... [Published AltAssets.net - May 21 2013]

Entities: Norman Lamont, Union Corp, Daniel Pinto, NM Rothschild & Sons Ltd

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Chelsea power show... it's all about the networking not the blooms

Entering the Royal Hospital’s gardens through Ambulance Gate, guests will be handed a glass of champagne — and the badinage and business card swapping will begin. If the attitude isn’t quite “forget the flowers” (many in attendance would appreciate some ... [Published London Evening Standard - May 20 2013]

Entities: Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, Masterwort, Roland Rudd, champagne, Sir Tom McKillop

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

John Lehal: Can a Dash for Business Expertise Solve Whitehall's Woes?

Civil service mandarins have had a tough time recently. Many government ministers have seen civil servants as obstacles to their plans rather than team players and the media has taken Whitehall to task over pay, perks and benefits. Given this hostile ... [Published Huffington Post UK - May 20 2013]

Entities: John Browne (Lord Browne of Madingley), Francis Maude, Reformism, Public Affairs, Barbara Stocking

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Lord Browne ‘Fracking Will Lighten CO2 Atmosphere Load’

Should oil and gas companies leave fossil fuels behind?Lord Browne told HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur of the huge gas reserves unlocked by fracking within the USA, saying it now represents 30% of American gas production.The former BP executive said that ... [Published Terrapinn - May 17 2013]

Entities: John Browne (Lord Browne of Madingley), Hydraulic Fracturing, Carbon Dioxide, Shale Gas, Atmosphere

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Space can still inspire artists and scientists

Having a tweeting, guitar-playing photographer in orbit for the past five months has been a revelation: thanks to Commander Chris Hadfield, space travel is no longer just the domain of the robotic astronaut who speaks with calm detachment. Hadfield even ... [Published London Evening Standard - May 17 2013]

Entities: Chris Hadfield, NASA, London, Space Travel

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Universities need to consider the impact of cleanliness

Universities and further education facilities have changed considerably over the past few years and with it has emerged a more consumer-conscious and discerning breed of student.With a greater choice of educational institutions to choose from, a wider ... [Published UniversityBusiness.co.uk - May 17 2013]

Entities: Education, Higher Education, John Browne (Lord Browne of Madingley), Complaints, Security

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A silver leadership bullet that may hurt the head [Published Business Spectator - 6 hours ago]
Policy paper: Government Lead Non-Executive rep... [Published Cabinet Office - 9 hours ago]
City Diary: Slow going for Lord Browne of Madin... [Published Telegraph - May 23 2013]
Google 'exploits content creators' [Published Orange UK - May 22 2013]
City Spy at Chelsea Flower Show: Diamond return... [Published London Evening Standard - May 21 2013]
Three ways to build that elusive business ethos... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 21 2013]
Stanhope Capital adds former Chancellor Norman ... [Published AltAssets.net - May 21 2013]
Chelsea power show... it's all about the networ... [Published London Evening Standard - May 20 2013]
John Lehal: Can a Dash for Business Expertise ... [Published Huffington Post UK - May 20 2013]
Lord Browne ‘Fracking Will Lighten CO2 Atmosphe... [Published Terrapinn - May 17 2013]
FG Burnett brokers £4m deal for Gladman [Published Comprop Scotland - May 17 2013]
Space can still inspire artists and scientists [Published London Evening Standard - May 17 2013]
Universities need to consider the impact of cle... [Published UniversityBusiness.co.uk - May 17 2013]
Glencore Xstrata shareholders sweep the deck clean [Published Globe and Mail - May 16 2013]
Business and politics: The thick of it [Published The Economist - Britain - May 16 2013]
Lords concludes debate on Queen's Speech [Published Individual.com - May 16 2013]
Climate change sceptic to advise David Cameron ... [Published Energy and energy security - May 16 2013]
Will Lily Cole triumph at cracking the two cult... [Published London Evening Standard - May 14 2013]
Nationalist security plans derided [Published Herald Scotland - May 14 2013]
Another Week of Anthropocene Antics, May 12, 20... [Published ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - May 14 2013]
VIDEO: 'No magic bullet' on energy [Published BBC - May 13 2013]
Tory EU referendum row and Cameron's press conf... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 13 2013]
Lancashire fracking protest [Published itv.com - May 11 2013]
Climate change sceptic to advise David Cameron ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 10 2013]
Key climate change adviser resigns from Cameron... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 10 2013]
Lancashire can become gas HQ [Published Lancashire Evening Post - May 10 2013]
Engineers come into their own with new $1m QEII... [Published Kensington & Chelsea Today - May 09 2013]
Coming to sites across the UK soon – fracking f... [Published The Independent - May 09 2013]
NEDs: choose carefully, listen closely [Published Public Finance Magazine - May 07 2013]
Reader’s letters - Tuesday 07 May 2013 [Published Lancashire Evening Post - May 07 2013]

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Climate change sceptic to advise David Cameron ... [Published Energy and energy security - May 16 2013] One of the government's fiercest climate change sceptics has been appointed to advise the prime minister on key foreign policy issues, in a move that has angered green campaigners. Peter Lilley , a former minister under Margaret Thatcher and John Major, ...
Another Week of Anthropocene Antics, May 12, 20... [Published ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - May 14 2013] Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor . Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week’s Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Information is not Knowledge…Knowledge is not Wisdom ...
Queen Elizabeth bestows royal honors on Interne... [Published Venturebeat - Mar 18 2013] Her majesty Queen Elizabeth II is honoring five technology luminaries with the first ever Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering . Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf, Louis Pouzin, Tim Berners Lee and Marc Andreesseen will share the award for their ‘ground-breaking ...
Lord Browne’s dash for gas [Published EnviroLib - Mar 12 2013] Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent Lord Browne, the former BP chief, said shale gas would give the world time to switch to a low-carbon economy. Photograph: Murdo Macleod Lord Browne, the former chief of BP and now the most senior business adviser ...
Drumbeat: January 28, 2013 [Published The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our ... - Jan 28 2013] Militants attack oil pipeline in Algeria, two dead ALGIERS (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist militantsattacked an oil pipeline in northern Algeria on Monday, killingtwo guards and wounding seven other people, a security sourcetold Reuters. The Djebahia ...

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VIDEO: Browne: Fracking is game changing [Published BBC News Video - Business - Apr 30 2013]