Robert Warren Dudley (born September 14, 1955) is an American businessman who is a former group chief executive of BP.

[6] Dudley was born in Queens, New York,[7] grew up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi,[4] and graduated from Hinsdale Central High School in suburban Chicago[8] in 1973.

He received a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois, where he joined the fraternity Phi Kappa Psi and served as District 3 Archon.

Disputes escalated and reached a point where BP's technical staff were barred from working in Russia.

[14] Wikileaks revealed that Bob Dudley strongly suspected Igor Sechin, Russia’s deputy prime minister and chairman of the state-owned energy company, Rosneft, for organizing a boardroom coup that led him to feel life-threatened.

[18][19] On July 27, 2010, BP announced that Dudley would succeed Tony Hayward as their group chief executive on October 1, 2010.

[27] Dudley was also part of a consortium of investors in Axio's Series B $23M financing round, led by Temasek's ISTARI.