John Jennings (businessman)
Sir John Southwood Jennings CBE FRSE FGS (30 March 1937 – 29 August 2024) was a British geologist who was Chancellor of Loughborough University, having previously been chairman of Shell Transport and Trading from 1993 to 1997, and a director until 2001.[1][2]
Jennings was born in Oldbury, Worcestershire, the son of George Southwood Jennings and Irene Beatrice Bartlett.[1] He was educated at Oldbury Grammar School and Birmingham University.[3] Sir John is Sloan Fellow of the London Business School and has honorary doctorates from Birmingham and Edinburgh Universities, having previously gained a BSc in Geology in 1958 and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh three years later.[2][4] He joined Shell in 1968 and advanced through the ranks to become Managing Director of the Royal Dutch Shell Group from 1987 to 1997 and Chairman of the Shell Transport and Trading Company plc from 1993 to 1997, when he was knighted.[1] Sir John was a Director of the company between 1987 and 2001.[2]
Jennings succeeded Sir Denis Rooke to become Loughborough University's fourth Chancellor in 2003, he retired from this position in July 2010[5]
Jennings died on 29 August 2024, at the age of 87.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 2094. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
- ^ a b c "Sir John Jennings appointed as new Chancellor of Loughborough University". www.lboro.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
- ^ "Sir John Jennings, CBE, FRSE Authorised Biography | Debrett's People of Today". Archived from the original on 11 November 2014. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
- ^ Jennings, John S. (1961). "The geology of the eastern part of the Lesmahagow inlier".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "BAA Chairman Sir Nigel Rudd appointed as new Chancellor of Loughborough University". www.lboro.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
- ^ "Sir John Jennings, Shell executive who steered the firm through crises in the North Sea and Nigeria". The Telegraph. 25 October 2024. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- 1937 births
- 2024 deaths
- British businesspeople
- Businesspeople awarded knighthoods
- Fellows of the Geological Society of London
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
- Chancellors of Loughborough University
- Knights Bachelor
- London Business School Sloan Fellows
- Alumni of London Business School
- Alumni of the University of Birmingham
- Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
- People named in the Panama Papers
- People from Oldbury, West Midlands