Corporate Secretary (retired) British Petroleum Group New Zealand
Judith Hanratty was appointed to the Board on January 1, 2005 and is a member of the Company�s Nominating & Governance Committee and the Finance & Risk Management Committee. From 1986 until 2003, Ms. Hanratty served in various Board and Corporate Secretarial positions for the British Petroleum Group (BP) with the final position as Company Secretary for BP from 1994 to 2003. During the time with BP Ms. Hanratty also served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Tanker Insurance Company, Limited from 1988 to 1995. Ms. Hanratty is currently a Member of the Council of Lloyd�s of London. Ms. Hanratty is a non-executive Director of Charles Taylor Consulting plc, the British Standards Institution and the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority. Ms. Hanratty is admitted to practice as a barrister in New Zealand, Australia and England (Inner Temple) and is Chairman of the Commonwealth Institute. She is also an Honorary Fellow, and former Trustee, of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Ms. Hanratty retired as non-executive director of Partnerships UK plc. in July 2005 and as non-executive chairman of the College of Law in November 2005. Ms. Hanratty was awarded the OBE in 2002 for services to the oil and gas industry in the United Kingdom.
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