[1] He is the former chief executive officer (CEO) of BG Group, Statoil and Aker Kværner,[2] and was a director of Schlumberger from June 2016 to April 2018.

He graduated with a Master of Arts in business management at the Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen in 1987.

[9][10] On 26 April 2018, it was announced by BP[11] that he would join their board on the 1 September 2018 and succeed Carl-Henric Svanberg as chairman with effect from 1 January 2019.

Many believe that the board’s mismanagement of Looney's appointment and its failure to anticipate challenges to its net-zero strategy have damaged BP's credibility.

[13] A press release from BP said that Lund was there to "pay tribute" to Aliyev's "exceptional contributions to the development of Azerbaijan and the entire region.