Derek Hudson is the President of BG Trinidad & Tobago with accountability for the overall well-being of BG’s Trinidad business, its internal and external reputation, key in-country relationships, and budget and asset business plan. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Hudson was a member of BG Trinidad & Tobago’s Senior Management Team with a wide ranging portfolio across all activities, with special emphasis on Policy and Corporate Affairs, Government Relations and development of new business opportunities. Previous to this, he was Vice President of one of BG’s upstream UK businesses with specific responsibility for the overall operations, financial management, strategy, and business development of the company’s interests in the UK continental shelf.

Mr. Hudson has worked in the oil and gas industry for nineteen years. He joined the oil industry as a Petroleum Geologist in 1989, working for the state oil company, Petrotrin, in Trinidad. In the early 1990’s, he joined Mobil Oil Corporation in Dallas, Texas as a geophysicist before returning to Petrotrin in 1992. Mr. Hudson joined BG Trinidad and Tobago Ltd in 1995 as an Operations Geologist, rapidly moving up the ranks to Exploration Manager in 1997. He joined the commercial directorate in the UK in 1998 and worked in the commercial negotiations group, taking up the position of Vice President of the UK business in November 2000. He rejoined BG Trinidad and Tobago as Chief of Staff in April 2004.

Mr. Hudson is also a member of the Board of Atlantic LNG and in December, 2005, also took up the non-Executive post of Chairman of the Port Authority of Trinidad and Tobago.

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