Rob Kelly was appointed Head of BP’s Upstream Digital Organization in February 2019. He is based in Houston, with accountability for shaping and delivering BP’s Upstream digital transformation. From 2011, Rob was VP of Technical Functions for BP’s Global Projects Organization, in Houston, for 8 years, with accountability for creating standards in the subsurface, wells, engineering, projects, operations, capability and decommissioning disciplines and verifying their use in BP’s major projects portfolio. Rob has a first-class honours BSc in Chemistry and a PhD in Organometallic Chemistry, both from Imperial College, London. He is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and an associate of the Royal College of Science.