Julian R. Metherell was appointed Vice Chairman of our board of directors in November 2020 and has been a member of our board since October 2011. Mr. Metherell has been Chairman of the Safety & Sustainability Committee since November 2019. Mr. Metherell was appointed to our Audit & Risk Committee from May to November 2020. Mr. Metherell was appointed to the GasLog Partners LP board of directors and Audit Committee in August 2020.
Mr. Metherell was the chief financial officer and a director of Genel Energy plc, a leading independent oil and gas exploration and production company operating in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Genel Energy plc is the successor to Vallares Plc, a publicly listed acquisition company which Mr. Metherell co-founded in April 2011.
From 1999 to 2011, Mr. Metherell was a partner at The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., where he served as chief executive officer of the UK investment banking division. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Mr. Metherell was a director in the European energy group at Dresdner Kleinwort, a London-based investment bank. Mr. Metherell is a graduate of Manchester University, where he received a B.Sc. degree, and of Cambridge University, where he received an M.B.A.