Andrew Gould

Chairman
Schlumberger Limited

Andrew Gould is chairman of Schlumberger Limited, a position he has held since August 2011.

Prior to this, Mr. Gould was chairman and chief executive officer of Schlumberger Limited from February 2003 to July 2011. In previous assignments he was president and chief operating officer, Schlumberger Limited, executive vice president Oilfield Services, president of Schlumberger Wireline and Testing, and president of Sedco Forex. He previously held a series of positions in finance and management in Asia, Europe and the United States.

Mr. Gould has been a member of the Board of Directors of Schlumberger Limited since 2002. He also sits on the Boards of Rio Tinto PLC and Rio Tinto Limited where he is Senior Independent Director and Chairman of the remuneration committee. He recently joined the Board of Directors of the BG group PLC.

He is a member of the Advisory Board of the King Fahd University for Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia and of the Board of Trustees of The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He served on the United Kingdom Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology from 2004 to 2007. He was Vice Chairman Technology for the United States National Petroleum Councils’ 2007 report “Facing the Hard Truths about Energy”.

Gould joined Schlumberger in 1975 in Paris, after working for Ernst & Young.  He received his degree in economic history from the University of Wales at Cardiff and qualified as a Chartered Accountant. He holds an honorary Doctorate in Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and is an honorary Fellow of Cardiff University.