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.
Quite often you interview people about human resources and say why do you want to be in human resources? And they say well I like people. Frankly, that is not a very good answer. I always think, in many ways, there is a very hard edge to human resources. The word resources kind of sums it up a li...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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