Royal Dutch Petroleum Company: Directorate Change

Royal Dutch Petroleum Company: Directorate Change 


THE HAGUE, The Netherlands, May 18  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Supervisory
Board and the Board of Management of N.V. Koninklijke Nederlandsche Petroleum
Maatschappij (Royal Dutch Petroleum Company) announce that at the General
Meeting of Shareholders of the Company to be held on 28th June 2004, it will be
proposed that Ms L.Z. Cook be appointed a Managing Director of the Company with
effect from 1st August 2004.

It is the intention that after her appointment as a Managing Director of the
Company, Ms Cook be appointed a member of the Presidium of the Board of
Directors of Shell Petroleum N.V., and a Managing Director of The Shell
Petroleum Company Limited with effect from 1st August 2004, thereby becoming a
Group Managing Director of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies.

Linda Cook, who is of US nationality, was born in Kansas City, USA, in 1958.
She joined Shell Oil Company in Houston, USA, in 1980, having graduated from
the University of Kansas with a degree in Petroleum Engineering.

Ms Cook worked for Shell Oil Company in Houston and California in a variety of
technical and managerial positions until 1998 when she moved to The Hague.
There she became Director Strategy and Business Development on the Shell
Exploration and Production Global Executive Committee. In 2000 Ms Cook was
appointed Chief Executive Officer for Shell Gas & Power in London. She became
President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of
Shell Canada Limited in Canada in 2003. Ms Cook is also a member of the Board
of Directors of The Boeing Company. 

DATASOURCE: Royal Dutch Petroleum Company



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