KMG EP: Christopher Hopkinson Elected Chairman of the Board
On 20 January 2015, the JSC KazMunaiGas Exploration Production (“KMG EP” or the “Company”) Board of Directors held a meeting and elected Christopher Hopkinson, the First Deputy Chair of the Management Board of National Company KazMunaiGas (“NC KMG”), as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of KMG EP and as Chairman of the KMG EP Nominations Committee.
The term of the current Board of Directors of KMG EP expires on 13 April 2015.
Christopher Hopkinson has been in the oil and gas sector since 1980. Before he joined NC KMG he was the CEO of International Petroleum; General Director at Imperial Energy, and Senior Vice President North Africa at BG Group. He held various jobs at Shell and TNK BP. Mr Hopkinson majored in physics at St Andrews University, in Scotland.
