John Manzoni
| John Manzoni | |
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| Permanent Secretary of the Cabinet Office | |
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Assumed office August 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Richard Heaton |
| Chief Executive of the Civil Service | |
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Assumed office 13 October 2014 |
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| Prime Minister |
David Cameron Theresa May |
| Preceded by | Bob Kerslake |
| Chief Executive, Major Projects Authority | |
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In office February 2014 – 13 October 2014 |
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| Preceded by | New role |
| Succeeded by | David Blackall |
| Personal details | |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Imperial College, London and Stanford University |
| Occupation | British businessperson and civil servant |
John Alexander Manzoni (born 1960) is a British civil servant and business executive. He was the responsible board member at BP at the time of the Texas City Refinery explosion, and now serves as Chief Executive of the Civil Service and the Permanent Secretary of the Cabinet Office.
Manzoni read for a BSc in Civil Engineering and an MSc in Petroleum Engineering at Imperial College, London before joining BP in 1983. He later undertook a Master of Science in Management as a Sloan Fellow at Stanford University in 1994.
Manzoni was Chief Executive for Refining & Marketing at BP at the time of the Texas City Refinery explosion in 2005, in which 15 people were killed and 170 injured, and was thus 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 long before the disaster occurred. The investigation found Manzoni had paid insufficient attention to safety and failed to spot clear warning signs. It accused him of failing to perform his duties in the run-up to the explosion and of engaging in a "simply not acceptable" standoff with a colleague. Regulators levied a then-record fine of $21m (£13m) on BP for breaching safety rules.
Shortly after the release of the BP report in 2007, Manzoni left BP after 24 years to be the Chief Executive Officer of Talisman Energy, an oil and gas exploration and production company. He replaced James Buckee, who had headed the company for 14 years. During his time at Talisman the company focused on shale gas, selling a non-controlling stake in its North Sea business to Sinopec in July 2012. In July 2015, the United States Environmental Protection Agency reported that it had fined Talisman Energy $62,457 for more than 50 health and safety violations at sites in Pennsylvania. Manzoni resigned from Talisman and was replaced by Hal Kvisle in September 2012.
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