{"id":7205,"date":"2026-05-26T13:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=7205"},"modified":"2026-05-26T13:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:12:17","slug":"bp-removes-manifold-as-chair-on-serious-governance-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=7205","title":{"rendered":"BP removes Manifold as chair on serious governance concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>BP Plc\u2019s board removed Chairman Albert Manifold from his role with immediate effect due to serious concerns about governance standards, oversight and conduct.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe board has been surprised and disappointed to learn of governance oversight and conduct issues it deems unacceptable and has taken decisive action,\u201d Amanda Blanc, senior independent director at BP, said in a statement on the company\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of the company fell 9.3% to 500.0 pence as of 12:32 p.m. in London.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>The chairman\u2019s sudden and unexpected departure prolongs a period of severe leadership turmoil at a moment when BP was supposed to be turning itself around from years of poor performance. Manifold played a key role in the removal of former Chief Executive Officer Murray Auchincloss and the appointment of his replacement Meg O\u2019Neill.<\/p>\n<p>The board has appointed Ian Tyler as interim chair. BP\u2019s leadership still has \u201cdeep conviction in the strategic direction we have laid out, and the company is moving at pace to deliver it,\u201d Tyler said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2026 Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p>                        #removes #Manifold #chair #governance #concerns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BP Plc\u2019s board removed Chairman Albert Manifold from his role with immediate effect due to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[3116,691,3547,13076,8086],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}