John MacArthur

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John MacArthur is Vice President CO₂ Policy for Shell, accountable for developing and steering Shell’s global CO₂ policy. His early career was in drilling and production engineering in the UK, The Netherlands, and Malaysia. He then returned to The Netherlands in a corporate strategy role, before becoming executive aide to Mr. Malcolm Brinded CBE, Executive Director of Shell Upstream International. Thereafter, John moved to the United Arab Emirates as strategy manager for the Middle East and Caspian region. He then led Shell’s joint venture operations in Egypt, before his current assignment.

John represents Shell on the Board of the UK Energy Technologies Institute – an industry-government initiative that brings together projects to create affordable, reliable, clean energy for heat, power and transport. He hosts the Shell Springboard Awards, an annual competition that provides no strings financial awards to assist small businesses in the commercialisation of low carbon products. John also hosts and helps to judge Shell’s LiveWIRE Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. An entrepreneur himself, John is Chairman of Nan Gall Energy Systems Ltd, which designs and manufactures innovative electronic instrumentation and tools for the global energy industry.

MacArthur holds an MEng Petroleum Engineering from Imperial College, London. John received the Outstanding Scholar award when studying for a Masters in Sustainability Leadership at University of Cambridge. He is a Chartered Petroleum Engineer, a Fellow of the UK’s Energy Institute, and a Member of the Institute of Directors. He is an alumnus and guest speaker for The Prince of Wales’s Business and Sustainability Leadership programme.