Appointment

BP PLC
29 November 2001



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                           BP BOARD ANNOUNCEMENT


The Board of BP p.l.c. announced today that it has appointed Dr DeAnne Julius
as a non-executive director of the Company with immediate effect.



Dr Julius (52) was educated at Iowa State University and at University of
California where she read economics. She is a non-executive director of the
Court of the Bank of England, having been a Member of the Bank of England's
Monetary Policy Committee from its formation in 1997 until June 2001. She is
also a non-executive director of Lloyds TSB and Serco. Over the last year she
has chaired the Government's Banking Services Consumer Codes Review Group.



After receiving her Ph.D., Dr Julius began her career as a project economist
with the World Bank in Washington, where her work included oil and gas
projects in a number of Asian and African countries.  From 1986 until 1997 she
held a succession of posts as a senior manager and economic adviser in a range
of major international organisations including British Airways, Royal Dutch
Shell Group and The Royal Institute of International Affairs.



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