Georgia Institute of TechnologySchool of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

The ConocoPhillips/C.J. “Pete” Silas Program
in Ethics and Leadership

 

James J. Mulva

presents

The Responsibilities of Energy Leadership

as
the 2009 ConocoPhillips/C.J. "Pete" Silas Lecturer

Wednesday, March 4 • 4:00 p.m.
MS&E Building • Room G011


James J. Mulva

James J. Mulva
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
ConocoPhillips

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James J. Mulva served as president and chief executive officer of ConocoPhillips from 2002 to 2004. Prior to that, he served as chairman and chief executive officer of Phillips Petroleum Company from 1999 to 2002. He had served as Phillips’ president and chief operating officer since May 1994 and executive vice president since January 1994. He had been senior vice president in 1993 and chief financial officer since 1990, at which time he joined the company's management committee.  

Mr. Mulva currently serves as a director for General Electric. He also is a member of The Business Council, as well as the Board of Visitors for the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

Born in 1946, Mr. Mulva is from Green Bay, Wis. He graduated from the University of Texas in 1968 with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in business administration finance in 1969. Immediately after graduating, Mr. Mulva served as a U.S. Navy officer until beginning his career with Phillips in 1973.


The ConocoPhillips/C.J. “Pete” Silas Program
in Ethics and Leadership

In recognition of the outstanding career achievements of Georgia Tech Chemical Engineering graduate C.J. “Pete” Silas, The Phillips Petroleum Foundation awarded a grant to the School of Chemical Engineering to develop the Phillips Petroleum/C.J. “Pete” Silas Program in Ethics and Leadership. Ethics, leadership and quality, founded on the basics of strong communication skills and professionalism, are regarded as essential components of an engineering education. This program spotlights the importance of ethics and leadership by focusing on technical and business decisions that have ethical ramifications. These topics and related areas are integrated into the required chemical engineering courses and are addressed in an annual public symposium with prominent industrialists and ethicists leading discussions on current issues of technology and ethics.

Previous Silas Program Lecturers


C. Judson King
Provost and Senior Vice President –
Academic Affairs, Emeritus
The University of California System

Elsa Reichmanis
Bell Labs Fellow and Director of the Materials Research Department,
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

Thomas M. Connelly, Jr.
Senior VP & Chief Science and Technology
Officer, DuPont

Lynn Laverty Elsenhans
President and CEO of Shell Oil Products U.S.,
and President Shell Oil Company, and Country Chair for Shell U.S.

Charles “Garry” Betty
President and Chief Executive Officer,
EarthLink, Inc.

William G. Paul
Attorney with Crowe & Dunlevy and
President Emeritus, American Bar Association

Raymond V. Gilmartin
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
of Merck & Company, Inc.

Robert W. Galvin
Chairman of the Executive Committee of Motorola, Inc.

Shaun F. O’Malley
Chairman Emeritus and Chairman of the Ethics Resource
Center of Pricewaterhouse, LLP

C.J. “Pete” Silas
Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
of Phillips Petroleum Company