Al Cook
Executive Vice President,
Global Strategy & Business Development (GSB) since 1 May 2018
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External offices: Member of the board of The Power of Nutrition.
Year of birth: 1975.
Position: Executive Vice President, GSB since 1 May 2018.
Number of shares in Equinor ASA: 2,173 (as of December 31, 2019).
Loans from Equinor ASA: None
Experience: Cook joined Equinor in 2016 as the SVP in DPI overseeing operations in Angola, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Libya, Nigeria, Russia and Venezuela. He joined from BP, where he was Chief of Staff to the CEO. Cook joined BP in 1996, taking on a series of project development and commercial roles in the North Sea and Gulf of Mexico. He then worked in field operations in the North Sea from 2002 to 2005, becoming Offshore Installation Manager. From 2005, he led the IGB2 Project in Vietnam and acted as President for BP Vietnam. Cook worked from 2009 to 2014 as BP’s Vice President leading the development of the Shah Deniz field in Azerbaijan and construction of the Southern Gas Corridor.
Education: MA in Natural Sciences from St. John’s College, Cambridge University and International Executive Programme at INSEAD.
Family relations: No family relations to other members of the Corporate Executive Committee, members of the Board or members of the Corporate Assembly.
Other matters: Cook is a UK citizen, resident in UK.