Fu Chengyu

Fu Chengyu, born in 1951, is a Chinese oil executive who became one of the best known leaders of the country's state petroleum companies. He graduated from Northeastern University in China, took a master's degree in petroleum engineering at the University of Southern California, and began his career in the Daqing, Liaohe and Huabei oilfields. From 1983 he chaired the management committees of joint ventures between the China National Offshore Oil Corporation and international oil companies including Amoco, Chevron, Texaco, Phillips, Shell and Agip. He rose through CNOOC to become its president and the chairman and chief executive of CNOOC Limited in 2003, and in 2011 he became chairman of the Sinopec Group, the largest Asian refiner, retiring in 2015.