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Position: Group Legal Director Royal Dutch Shell plc The Hague The Netherlands
Nationality: Swiss
Date of Birth: July 6 1949
Degree: Ph.D. Law University of Fribourg Switzerland
Career:
Beat Hess has been Group Legal Director of Royal Dutch Shell since 2003.
In 1988 prior to joining Shell Beat Hess became General Counsel of ABB where he headed Legal and
Compliance and he advised the Group Executive Committee and the Board on all legal matters of group
importance. From 1998 onward he was also secretary to the Board of Directors.
His career began as a legal adviser to a Swiss cantonal government and a law clerk in Swiss courts in 1972.
Then in 1977 he joined BBC Brown Boveri Ltd a Swiss multinational engineering group later to merge
with ASEA to become ABB - as Legal Counsel with a particular focus on negotiation of large projects and
transactions.
Beat Hess has a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Fribourg Switzerland and a Juris Doctorship and
Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Legal Studies from the University of Geneva Switzerland as well as a
Master of Laws from the University of Miami USA. He was admitted to the bar in his home canton of
Obwalden.
Beat Hess was born in Lucerne Switzerland in 1949 and speaks four languages. | 