Barbara Harrison is the Vice President, Offsets & Emerging, Chevron New Energies. In this role, she is responsible for growing Chevron’s Offsets and Emerging businesses, turning strategy into action to deliver on Chevron’s higher returns and lower carbon ambitions.

In her prior role, Ms Harrison was the General Manager of Value Chain Optimization (VCO), International Fuels and Lubricants (IF&L) in Asia, where she was responsible for strategic planning for IF&L and for optimizing crude supply and products placements within Chevron’s refining and marketing systems across Asia and Australia. Before this, Ms Harrison was General Manager of the Planning and Change Management Office in Corporate Strategic Planning, responsible for Chevron’s business planning process, Secretary of the Management Committee, and managed the Change Management Office, which supports the deployment of the strategic imperatives across the corporation. She previously held several positions of increasing responsibility across Chevron’s Downstream and Chemicals business in manufacturing, strategy, VCO and retail.

Ms Harrison started her career at the Richmond Refinery in California as a Process Engineer in 2001. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from University College Dublin in Ireland.

She is married with three children: two daughters and a son.