CONCLUSION
As a child, Jo Alexander discovered a passion for nature and the determination to explore it. But after studying geology at university, she found youthful aspirations slamming into the cold realities of the job market. On realizing she was most qualified for a career in mineral exploration, Alexander chose BP because she admired its progressive CEO, John Browne, and the company’s farsighted commitment to moving “beyond petroleum.”
By 2015, after eleven years spent helping BP find fresh exploration opportunities, the company’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig disaster and an abrupt change in leadership left Alexander feeling she’d lost her way. “I was very worried about climate change, but it was more than ...
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