Reading, United Kingdom - December 16, 2013, Reading, United Kingdom - BG Group, an exploration and energy production company, announced the appointment of two non-executive directors and the succession of a new senior independent director, effective January 1, 2014.
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Pamela Daley and Martin Ferguson will join the board as Non-Executive Directors.
Ms. Daley has been a Special Advisor to General Electric Co. since April 1, 2013. She served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Business Development at General Electric Co. from July 2004 to April 1, 2013. She served as Vice President and Senior Counsel for Transactions and as Tax and Finance Counsel at GE. Prior to GE, she served as a Partner of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where she specialized in domestic and cross-border tax-oriented financings and commercial transactions.
Ms. Daley served as a Director of General Electric Capital Services Inc. and GE Oil & Gas. She serves as Director of World Wildlife Fund Inc. and the GE Foundation and served at General Electric Capital Corporation. She served as Director of Genworth Financial and is a member of the Board of Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a member of the National Council of the World Wildlife Fund. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Order of the Coif.
Ms. Daley served as Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review of University of Pennsylvania Law School. She was an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, teaching Federal Income Taxation of Partners and Partnerships.
Ms. Daley received her A.B. degree with highest honors from Princeton University in Romance Languages and Literatures. She graduated first in her class with a J.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Mr. Ferguson was elected to Federal Parliament as the Member for Batman in 1996 and served continuously as a Shadow Minister until the election of the Labor Government in 2007. He served successively as Shadow Minister for Employment and Training; Employment and Training, Population and Immigration and Assistant to the Leader on
Multicultural Affairs; and Employment, Training and Population.
Mr. Ferguson also served as Shadow Minister for Regional Development, Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Services and Population; Regional and Urban Development, Transport and Infrastructure; Regional Development, Transport, Infrastructure and Tourism; Urban and Regional Development, Transport and Infrastructure; Primary Industries, Resources and Tourism; Primary Industries, Resources, Forestry and Tourism; and Transport, Roads and Tourism.
Mr. Ferguson was President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) after working for the Federated Miscellaneous Workers' Union of Australia. As president of the ACTU, he was a member of advisory councils and foundations including the Social Security Review, the Economic Planning Advisory Council, the National Labour Consultative Council and the Advance Australia Foundation. He was also a member of the ILO Governing Body.
Mr. Ferguson was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia. He has a Bachelor of Economics degree (Hons) from Sydney University.
The company also announced that Baroness Sarah Hogg, Senior Independent Director, will become a Non-Executive Director of the Group but, in recognition of her completion of a nine-year tenure as a director of the Group in January 2014, she will step down as a member of the Audit and the Nominations Committees with effect from December 31, 2013.
Baroness Hogg was appointed as director in 2005. She is former head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit, as Second Permanent Secretary from 1990 to 1995, and has extensive experience of business, government and the media. She was Chairman of 3i Group plc and has been a Non-Executive Director of several other companies.
Baroness Hogg is Chairman, the Financial Reporting Council; Chairman, Frontier Economics Limited; Member of The Takeover Panel; Senior Adviser, the Financial Services Authority; Lead Non-Executive Board member, HM Treasury; and Non-Executive Director, John Lewis Partnership.
The company also announced that John Hood will succeed Baroness Hogg as Senior Independent Director.
Mr. Hood is Non-Executive Director, appointed in 2007. He was formerly Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Vice Chancellor of the University of Auckland, and also a member of the Growth and Innovation Advisory Board and the Enterprise Council of the Prime Minister of New Zealand. He has also been a director of New Zealand-based companies, including Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd and ASB Bank Limited, and was chairman of Tonkin & Taylor Ltd. ■