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John Browne

July 2024

  • Illustration: Guardian Design

    The Audio Long Read
    How the Tories pushed universities to the brink of disaster – podcast

  • Broken Uni tory mortarboard illustration

    The broken years: Tory Britain 2010-24
    How the Tories pushed universities to the brink of disaster

June 2024

  • A section of the BP Eastern Trough Area Project oil platform in the North Sea

    Former BP boss calls for end to new North Sea drilling licences

    John Browne appears to back Labour energy policy as he underlines need for green transition

October 2022

  • Losing Status composite for G2 Online - credits below - (l-r).

    ‘You have to be thick-skinned’: what is it like to lose the status of a top job?

    After just 45 days as prime minister, Liz Truss has abruptly lost power. How have others such as Lib Dem leader Vince Cable and Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman coped with life after a high-level role – and can they offer any advice?

May 2022

  • Lord Browne in his garden in Chelsea

    Observer business profile
    Lord Browne: the man who went from BP and the North Sea to net zero

    he former oil chief is now championing green energy as an investor – and also backing a windfall tax on his old industry

September 2016

  • Portrait of an Unknown Lady painting with Lord Browne, the Tate’s chairman.

    Historic first as Tate Britain buys early portrait by female artist

    Joan Carlile’s Portrait of an Unknown Lady (1650-5) is the earliest work by a female artist to join the Tate’s collection

June 2016

  • An employee poses in front of The Passing Winter 2005 by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama

    New Tate Modern: more women, more diverse and more macaws

    The £260m Switch House extension has rooms with solo female artists, work from across the world, and a live bird installation

September 2015

  • Lord Browne, formerly chief executive of BP

    Former BP boss on VW scandal: ‘With these big crises, you have to overreact’

    Lord Browne’s career has seen good times and bad: and coincidentally, his new book discusses how firms should tackle disastrous turns of events

April 2015

  • Lord Browne

    Lord Browne: LGBT networks are fine, but CEOs must set the tone on inclusion

    Former CEO of BP calls on senior leaders to create an agenda within their companies to ensure LGBT employees bring their authentic selves to work

8 March 2015

  • Germany's RWE energy giant sold its DEA oil subsidiary to the L1 Group.

    Ex-BP boss aims to build major energy industry player from scratch

    Lord Browne heads new oligarch-backed $10bn fund L1 which is buying up energy industry assets while price of oil is low
  • Lord Browne

    Lord Browne bounces back into oil

    The man who pioneered ‘beyond petroleum’ at BP would be thinking of retirement, or at least a venture less risky than heading L1 Energy
  • The Bank of England could have handled news of an SFO investigation more adroitly.

    Business leader
    The Old Lady’s not for talking: what is the Bank of England not telling us?

    Mark Carney promised to make the Bank a more open place. But its behaviour over the Serious Fraud Office investigation is reminiscent of the bad old days

November 2014

  • David Simonds cartoon

    Business leader
    People power is not enough: it’s the regulator’s job to punish businesses

    Business leader: Consumers can vote with their feet on shopping trips, but rectifying sytematic wrongdoing is a task for the authorities

July 2014

  • Woman in Stonewall t-shirt some People are gay. Get over it! at Pride London 2008 Parade

    LGBT rights and business in focus
    Challenges for LGBT people in the workplace and how to overcome them

  • lord browne smashing a glass window with a hammer

    GuardianWitness assignments
    Coming out at work: Lord Browne reads your stories

May 2014

  • Former Chief Executive of BP, Lord Browne sits in his car after leaving the BP headquarters

    GuardianWitness assignments
    Have you come out at work? Share your experiences

    Are you out in the work place or do you feel under pressure to keep your sexuality hidden? We'd like to find out whether it's easy – or difficult – to be LGBT where you work via GuardianWitness
  • Lord Browne

    Lord Browne: 'I thought being gay was basically wrong'

    Do you have to be straight to get ahead in business? For 38 years BP boss Lord Browne thought so – then he was outed by his first boyfriend. He talks to Decca Aitkenhead about power, politics and homophobia at the top

  • C Radio 1 DJ Scott Mills interviews Lord Browne

    Radio 1’s Scott Mills talks to Lord Browne about coming out in the corporate world - video

    BBC Radio 1 DJ Scott Mills interviews former chief of BP, Lord Browne, about his new book The Glass Closet and the challenges facing the LGBT community in the business and corporate world

March 2014

  • Anti-fracking protest at the Cuadrilla fracking site in Balcombe, Sussex, Britain - 01 Aug 2013

    Owen Paterson held urgent meeting for fracking boss, documents show

    Environment secretary held high-level meeting at Cuadrilla's request with Environment Agency over regulation dispute

February 2014

  • John Manzoni

    Ex-BP oil disaster and fracking executive to lead big government projects

    Government appoints John Manzoni as head of Major Projects Authority, which oversees HS2 and nuclear programme
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