Hugh Mitchell became Chief Human Resources and Corporate Officer at Shell on July 1, 2009.
Hugh graduated from Edinburgh University, Scotland, with an MA (Hons) in Modern History in 1979. Later that year he joined Human Resources in Shell Exploration & Production in Aberdeen. Further HR and business roles followed across the UK and Brunei in both the upstream and downstream businesses.
In 1997 he became HR Vice President for the Global Oil Products business. Hugh moved to Shell headquarters in The Hague, the Netherlands, in 2003 as Director International. His responsibilities included coordinating the company's worldwide government relations activities.
In March 2005, Hugh was appointed Human Resources Director of Royal Dutch Shell. He became a member of the Executive Committee in October 2007.
The career model in Shell, historically, was kind of cradle to grave type of model. I have two children of my own and the idea of someone saying to them please join us and we'll let you go when you're 65, I'm not so sure they would find that such an attractive proposition. But, for me, there is a ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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