Sam Laidlaw

Chairman

Sam has extensive leadership experience in capital intensive industries where safety, sustainability, long-term value creation and stakeholder management are critical.

Sam has more than 40 years’ experience working across the energy, industrial and financial sectors, and has held several senior roles including Chief Executive Officer of both Enterprise Oil plc and Centrica plc, and as the Founder and Executive Chairman of Neptune Energy Group Holdings Ltd, an international oil and gas exploration and production company. He was the senior non-executive director of HSBC Holdings plc and of Rio Tinto Plc.

Sam has worked extensively with Government having been a member of the Prime Minister’s Advisory Group in the coalition government, a member of government energy panels and the Senior Director for the Department of Transport. Sam has also been involved in higher education as Chairman of the National Centre for Universities and Business, and Chairman and Board member of the Global Leadership Council at the Saïd Business School.