- Philip J. Carroll
Philip J. Carroll, Jr. (born 1937) is active in a variety of
corporate andgovernment roles. Carroll earned aBachelor of science inPhysics fromLoyola University New Orleans in 1958 and a M.S. in physics fromTulane University in 1961, after which he joined theShell Oil company as anengineer .Carroll became the
CEO ofShell Oil in 1993 and served in that position until July 1998, when he became theChairman andCEO ofFluor Corporation , an engineering and construction services firm. He retired from Fluor in February 2002.He is currently a
Non-Executive Director of the British defense companyBAE Systems . Carroll is a member of theBoard of Directors of other companies, includingBoise Cascade ,Vulcan Materials ,American Express ,Scottish Power , andTexas Medical Center .Phillip Carroll is an honorary life member of the board of the
American Petroleum Institute , a member of theTulane University advisory board, and the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy atRice University and theUniversity of Houston .In the 1970s he briefly served as the Director of the U.S. Department of Commerce's Energy Conservation Division and the Director of the National Industrial Energy Conservation Council. In 2003 he was appointed by the Bush administration to head the policy planning advisory board of the
Iraqi Oil Ministry.He opposed the neo conservative backed plan to privatize Iraqi oil. He toldNewsnight : "ManyNeo-Conservatives are people who have certain ideological beliefs about markets, aboutdemocracy , about this, that and the other. International oil companies, without exception, are very pragmatic commercial organizations. They don't have atheology ."News
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/03/international/worldspecial/03OIL.html?ex=1052539200&en=c173c9428e372341&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE/ An American and 2 Iraqis to Assume Key Oil Posts] , "New York Times", May 2 2003.
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/4354269.stm BBC with Greg Palast]External links
* [http://www.baesystems.com BAE Systems]
* [http://www.fluor.com Fluor Corporation]
* [http://www.vulcanmaterials.com Vulcan Materials]
* [http://www.scottishpower.com Scottish Power, PLC]
* [http://boise.bc.com Boise Cascade]
* [http://www.tmc.edu Texas Medical Center]
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