John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley, serves as chairman and co-founder of BeyondNetZero, a climate growth equity venture established in partnership with General Atlantic focused on supporting and scaling high-growth companies that are developing innovative solutions to meet and exceed net-zero emissions targets.
Lord Browne served as group chief executive of bp from 1995 to 2007. He joined the company in 1966 as a university apprentice. Lord Browne led the company through a period of significant growth and transformation, including bp’s merger with Amoco in 1998. His landmark speech at Stanford University in 1997 established bp as a global leader in the way it sought to address climate change.
In 2007, Lord Browne joined Riverstone, where he was co-head of the world’s largest renewable energy private equity fund until 2015. He is a former chairman of Wintershall Dea, Europe’s largest independent oil and gas company. Lord Browne is co-chair of the U.K. Prime Minister’s Council on Science and Technology. From 2010 to 2015, he was the U.K. government’s lead nonexecutive board member. He was knighted in 1998 and made a life peer in 2001.
