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Introducing Andrew Liveris

Andrew N. Liveris AO is a former CEO and chairman of The Dow Chemical Company of Midland, Michigan. Liveris has been a member of Dow's board of directors since February 2004, CEO since November 2004 and was elected as chairman of the board effective 1 April 2006. He became CEO in 2004 after holding the position of chief operating officer (COO). Afterwards he served as executive chairman of DowDuPont.

Liveris is President of the Board of the Brisbane Organising Committee for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games (OCOG) and Chairman of Lucid Motors. He serves on the board of directors of the battery company Novonix, and he is also on the board of IBM, Saudi Aramco, Worley.

Andrew is on the advisory board of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Teneo, and NEOM. He is Chairman of the BlackRock Long Term Capital and a special advisor to the Public Investment Fund (PIF) and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and a member of the executive committee of the Business Roundtable.

Liveris is also a former president of the International Council of Chemical Associations. He served as vice-chairman of The Business Council for 2011 and 2012, and as chairman for 2013 and 2014. He is a member of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and the American Australian Association.

Andrew is a member of the board of trustees for the United States Council for International Business and is a trustee of the California Institute of Technology.

In 2011 Andrew Liveris was awarded the George E. Davis Medal by the Institution of Chemical Engineers and in April 2012 he became a member of the Special Olympics International board of directors.
In a wide ranging and intellectually stimulating conversation, Andrew and John discussed resilience, globalisation, education, environment, and the role that Chemical Engineers might play as they help to shape in the planet in the 22nd Century.

Andrew believes the interesting dynamics (of change) lie at the intersection of business, government and society and he is working at every point in that triangle to try and get impact and influence in the trends that are very much upon us.

Chemical Engineers thrive when being asked to consider systems thinking, making sense of complex and complicated scenarios by looking at the problem as whole.

Please take few minutes to click through these articles and absorb his thoughts and ideas for a better world.