Dev Sanyal is Chief Executive Officer of VARO Energy Group AG, based in Zug, Switzerland. He was appointed to this role effective 1 January 2022.

Until 31 December 2021, Mr Sanyal had a three-decade career with BP plc including over a decade as a member of the group executive committee and headed gas and low carbon energy globally. Prior to this, he was chief executive, alternative energy and also accountable for BP’s Europe and Asia regions. Earlier, he was group treasurer and chair of BP Investment Management and Arco Aluminium, chief executive of Air BP International and chief executive, BP Eastern Mediterranean.

Mr Sanyal is an independent non-executive director on the board of M&G plc; a member of the advisory board of the Centre for European Reform and the board of overseers of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, where he obtained a master’s degree in economics and politics. He is a Fellow of the Energy Institute.

Mr Sanyal was an independent non-executive director on the board of Man Group plc (2013-2022).