Mr. Fu Chengyu is standing member of the 12th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference National Committee. He is former Chairman of China Petrochemical Corporation (SINOPEC Group) and former Chairman of China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (SINOPEC Corporation).Before joining SINOPEC in 2011, he was Chairman & CEO of China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC). He is also a member of the UN Global Compact Board and Chairman of Global Compact Network China Board.

Mr. Fu has 40 years of experience in the petroleum industry and earned quite some recognition in the industry. He was listed among “Most Influential People” by Time magazine in 2005, and awarded “Most Influential Business Leader in China” by Fortune in 2008 and “The Best-Performing CEOs in the World” by Harvard Business Review in 2009. In 2011, he was named “Executive to Watch in 2012” by Wall Street Journal, and “Businessperson of the Year” by Fortune. In 2012, he was elected “Petroleum Executive of Year 2012” by the Energy Intelligence Group. He received the “South-South and Triangular Cooperation Champion 2013” award by the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation, and the “Legend in Leadership” award by Yale School of Management in 2013.

Mr. Fu graduated from China’s Northeast Petroleum Institute in 1975 and received a master's degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Southern California, USA in 1986.