Katie Jackson
Shell
Executive Vice President, Global Strategy & Business Development
Katie Jackson is Executive Vice President, Commercial & NBD at Shell. She began her career at Shell in 1994 as a Drilling Engineer, followed by five years in oil and gas investment banking with UBS, based in London and Houston. In 2005, Katie joined Anadarko, where she was VP, Corporate Development, responsible for M&A and US Business Development. She joined Statoil in 2010 initially as SVP, Corporate M&A, before returning to operations in the role of SVP, Development & Production for Europe and Asia with responsibility for upstream activities. In 2015, Katie joined BG Group as EVP for Global Business Development and Strategy, until the merger in February 2016. Since re-joining Shell, Katie has worked in Commercial and New Business Development, originally with regional responsibility for Europe and CIS where she oversaw several pieces of the $30 billion post-BG divestment program. Katie was promoted to her current role with global responsibility for Upstream and Integrated Gas in September 2018. She is based in The Hague. Katie holds an MA in Pure & Applied Biology from Oxford University. She was appointed as a non-executive director of the specialist engineering group IMI in July 2018. Her family live in London and she has two lively sons aged 11 and 9 years old.