June 21, 2010
Chancellor of U. System of Georgia Quit BP's Board Just Before Spill
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Erroll B. Davis Jr. recently left the board of directors of BP, whose London headquarters are shown here. His involvement with the now-disparaged oil company is an example of how such corporate service can end up consuming university leaders' time and attention.
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Simon Dawson, Bloomberg, Getty Images
Erroll B. Davis Jr. recently left the board of directors of BP, whose London headquarters are shown here. His involvement with the now-disparaged oil company is an example of how such corporate service can end up consuming university leaders' time and attention.
Erroll B. Davis Jr. served on BP's board of directors for 12 years, retiring just five days before the company's Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded. The chancellor of the University System of Georgia, who was also a member of the board's safety committee, is thereby linked to one of the nation's worst environmental disasters, and a share of the resulting litigation and negative publicity.
The four-member safety committee has received extra attention in class-action lawsuits, at least
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