Tullow Oil appointed Rahul Dhir, SPE, as CEO and an executive director of the group, effective 1 July. Current executive chair, Dorothy Thompson, will return to her position as nonexecutive chair. Dhir is currently CEO of Delonex Energy, an Africa-focused oil and gas company that he founded in 2013. Previously, he was managing director and CEO of Cairn India from 2006 to 2012. He started his career as a petroleum engineer, before moving into investment banking where he led teams at Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch, advising major oil and gas companies on merger and acquisition and capital-market-related issues. Dhir holds a BTech degree from Indian Institute of Technology, an MSc from the University of Texas, and an MBA from the Wharton School.
Rahul Dhir
