After completing a Bachelor of Commerce degree in marketing, he worked for a few years in the United Kingdom and travelled widely.

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Lord Simon who ran BP from 1992 to 1995 had a modern languages degree from Cambridge and Sir Peter Walters who was chairman of BP from 1981 to 1990 graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree.

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