Board/Management Information • May 26, 2025
Board/Management Information
Open in ViewerOpens in native device viewer
Recommendation from Equinor's nomination committee
The nomination committee in Equinor ASA (OSE:EQNR, NYSE:EQNR) recommends that
the company's corporate assembly elects Dawn Summers as a new member to the
board of directors of Equinor ASA
Further, the nomination committee recommends a re-election of Jon Erik
Reinhardsen as chair and Anne Drinkwater as deputy chair of the board, in
addition to re-election of Finn Bjørn Ruyter, Haakon Bruun-Hanssen, Mikael
Karlsson, Fernanda Lopes Larsen and Tone Hegland Bachke as members of the board
of directors. Current member, Jonathan Lewis will resign from the board of
directors as of 30 June 2025. It is recommended that Dawn Summers' election
takes effect from 1 September 2025.
Dawn Summers served as Interim Chief Operating Officer at Harbour Energy from
2024 - 2025. In this position, she was responsible for ensuring business
continuity and smooth operations integration following Harbour Energy's
acquisition of Wintershall Dea, where she was as Chief Operating Officer and
board member from 2020-2024. In this role, she was responsible for safe business
delivery and also led efforts to develop early-stage carbon capture and storage
(CCS) and hydrogen projects. Before this, Summers held COO roles at Beach Energy
from 2018-2020 and Origin Energy from 2016-2018. She was executive Head of HSE,
Operations & Developments with General Energy from 2013-2015 and has held
several positions with BP plc from 1995-2013.
Summers is active in European energy policy. As former Chair of the European
Board of the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (IOGP), she led
strategic engagement with EU institutions on energy transition policy and energy
security. She also served as President of GasNaturally, promoting secure
approaches to climate resilience across the gas value chain.
Summers is a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion in the energy sector
and committed to mentoring the next generation of women leaders in STEM fields.
Summers has a Bachelor of Engineering (with Honours) in Chemical Engineering
from Edinburgh University and Executive Operations Leadership from MIT Sloan
School of Management in Massachusetts, USA.
The election to the board of directors of Equinor ASA takes place in the
company's corporate assembly meeting Monday 2 June 2025. It is proposed that the
election takes effect from 1 July 2025, with the exception of Dawn Summers who
is proposed elected with effect from 1 September 2025, all with effect until the
ordinary election of members to the board of directors in June 2026.
Contacts:
* Nils Morten Huseby, chair of the nomination committee
* All enquiries to be directed through Equinor Corporate Press Office,
Sissel Rinde, +47 412 60 584.
This information is subject of the disclosure requirements pursuant to section
5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act
Building tools?
Free accounts include 100 API calls/year for testing.
Have a question? We'll get back to you promptly.