John Manzoni

John Alexander Manzoni is a British civil servant and business executive.

He was an executive at BP at the time of the Texas City Refinery explosion and was the responsible board member. An internal BP investigation cleared him of “serious neglect or intentional misconduct” but said he should have taken more steps to consider and mitigate the risks before the disaster occurred.^[1]

He was the Chief Executive Officer of Talisman Energy, an oil and gas exploration and production company, from 2007 to 2012.^[2] In February 2014, he joined the British Civil Service in a senior role as Chief Executive of the Major Projects Authority.^[3]

On 13 October 2014, he was appointed the first Chief Executive Officer of the Civil Service.^[4] He will be paid £200,000-a-year.^[5]

Until October 2014 he was chairman of the Leyshon Energy exploration company, which is headquartered in Tortola, British Virgin Islands, and an adviser to an energy private equity firm, Adamant Ventures. He is also, and will continue to be, a non-executive director for SABMiller, for which he is paid £100,000 a year. This has been criticised by Sarah Wollaston and others who say it undermines his credibility as an impartial official. SABMiller was one of the drinks firms that opposed the introduction of minimum alcohol pricing.^[6]

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