Kirsty McCormack

VP Special Projects, BP


Kirsty McCormack is part of the Strategy and Sustainability leadership team who coordinate the formulation of BP’s business and sustainability strategies, and she has accountability for developing in-depth understanding of critical markets in which BP chooses to participate. She joined BP in 1997 after obtaining a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Glasgow, UK, and has spent her whole career with BP.
McCormack has held a wide variety of leadership roles in finance in the Upstream business, including most recently VP Planning and Commercial for BP’s Upstream business. The role included responsibility for strategy, portfolio analysis, external results reporting and financial management information. Previously she has held regional Commercial Manager roles in Egypt, Angola and the Gulf of Mexico. Outside of Upstream finance, McCormack has also held roles in Group Treasury and in the Project Management Office for the major organizational change program “Reinvent bp”. She is based in Houston Texas, USA.