Ann BlackOBE is a British political activist who serves as a member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Labour Party. She served from 2000 to 2018 and was re-elected in November 2020. She was chair of the NEC from 2009 to 2010,and has also served as chair of the NEC's disputes panel.
The Number 10 Policy Unit is a body of policymakers based in 10 Downing Street,providing policy advice directly to the British Prime Minister. Originally set up to support Harold Wilson in 1974,it has gone through a series of guises to suit the needs of successive prime ministers,staffed variously by political advisers,civil servants and more recently a combination of both.
Edmund John Phillip Browne,Baron Browne of Madingley,is a British businessman.
Talisman Energy Inc. was a Canadian independent petroleum company that existed between 1993 and 2015. The company was created from the assets of BP Canada after British Petroleum divested its 57 percent stake in June 1992. It was one of Canada's largest independent oil and gas companies,and operated globally,with operations in Canada and the United States of America in North America;Colombia,South America;Algeria in North Africa;United Kingdom and Norway in Europe;Indonesia,Malaysia,Vietnam,Papua New Guinea,East Timor and Australia in the Far East;and Kurdistan in the Middle East. Talisman Energy has also built the offshore Beatrice Wind Farm in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland.
The Downing Street chief of staff is the most senior political appointee in the Office of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom,acting as a senior aide to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The holder of the office retains a highly powerful,non-ministerial position within His Majesty's Government.
Anthony Bryan Hayward is a British businessman and former CEO of the oil and energy company BP. He replaced the Baron Browne of Madingley on 1 May 2007. His tenure ended on 1 October 2010 when he was replaced by Bob Dudley following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. He was chairman of Glencore Xstrata from 2014 to 2021.
The fossil fuels lobby includes paid representatives of corporations involved in the fossil fuel industry,as well as related industries like chemicals,plastics,aviation and other transportation. Because of their wealth and the importance of energy,transport and chemical industries to local,national and international economies,these lobbies have the capacity and money to attempt to have outsized influence on governmental policy. In particular,the lobbies have been known to obstruct policy related to environmental protection,environmental health and climate action.
Daniel Korski is a UK-based Danish political adviser and businessperson. He worked as deputy head of the Number 10 Policy Unit for David Cameron and served as a vice-president of the Jewish Leadership Council. He founded the business PUBLIC,which aims to support technology companies to secure public sector contracts.
BP p.l.c. is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London,England. It is one of the oil and gas "supermajors" and one of the world's largest companies measured by revenues and profits. It is a vertically integrated company operating in all areas of the oil and gas industry,including exploration and extraction,refining,distribution and marketing,power generation,and trading.
Harold Norman "Hal" Kvisle is a Canadian businessman in the petroleum industry.
Robert Warren Dudley is an American businessman who is a former group chief executive of BP. He had been 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 Organization responding to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. He is the chair of the international industry-led Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI). He is a former board member of Rosneft,the Russian state-owned energy giant.
Alexander Viktorovich Temerko is a Ukrainian businessman in the energy sector,currently a director of the British company Aquind Limited. Previously,he was director and deputy chairman of the British company OGN Group. While in Russia,he held senior posts in the Russian Defence Ministry in the 1990s and,from 1999,was a senior executive and director at the Russian oil and gas company Yukos. He has resided in the United Kingdom since 2004. He became a British citizen in 2011.
Ayman Asfari is a Syrian-British billionaire businessman. He was the chief executive (CEO) of Petrofac,a Jersey-registered multinational oilfield services company serving the oil,gas and energy production and processing industries,from 2002 to 2020,and became a non-executive director.
Sir Alexander James Chisholm is a British civil servant and former regulator,who served as Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary and the chief operating officer of the United Kingdom's Civil Service between April 2020 and April 2024.
The Downing Street director of communications is the post of director of communications for the prime minister of the United Kingdom. The position is held by an appointed special adviser.
Alan Jon Clark is a South African businessman. On 22 April 2013,he became the chief executive officer (CEO) of SABMiller,a FTSE 100 multinational brewing and beverage company,and the world's second largest brewer.
Anthony Jan Michael Meggs is a British petroleum industry executive and former civil servant,currently serving as the Chairman of Crossrail,and formerly as Chief Executive of the Infrastructure and Projects Authority,jointly part of the Treasury and the Cabinet Office.
Andrew Rhodes is the Chief Executive of the Gambling Commission - the UK's regulator for the gambling industry,and was formerly a senior British civil servant,occupying the largest operational director general role in the UK Government.
Fiona McLeod Hill,formerly known as Fiona Cunningham,is a British political adviser,business strategist and founder of Future Resilience Forum. She served as Joint Downing Street Chief of Staff supporting prime minister Theresa May,alongside Nick Timothy,until her resignation following the 2017 general election.
The Committee on Fuel Poverty (CFP) is an advisory non-departmental public body of the government of the United Kingdom,sponsored by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. Its role is to advise on the effectiveness of policies aimed at reducing fuel poverty,and encourage greater co-ordination across the organisations working to reduce fuel poverty.
