Biography: Vivienne Cox

Vivienne Cox, is the former CEO and Executive Vice President of BP Alternative Energy and a former member of the BP Executive Management Team. Vivienne joined BP Chemicals in a commercial role moving to BP Exploration in 1985, and then BP Finance.

In 1990 Vivienne set up the commodity derivatives group within oil trading and in 1996 managed the development of new business in central and Eastern Europe.

In 1998 Vivienne became the CEO of Air BP; managing the sales of branded fuels in over 90 countries worldwide. Following this, Vivienne pulled together all BP's trading activities in Oil, Gas, Chemicals and Finance into a single organisation which she led until 2006. Vivienne was an Executive Vice President from 2004 and in 2008 she brought together all of BP's activities in renewables.

Vivienne is on the Board of Rio Tinto plc, Chairman of Climate Change Capital, the Board of INSEAD, the Supervisory Board of Vallourec and is the Patron of the St. Francis Hospice Charity, UK.

She holds a Bachelors degree, an MA in Chemistry from Oxford University, an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Hull and an MBA at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France.