Michael Christopher Daly (Mike), (born 1953), is a British geologist, oil and gas executive and academic.

BP’s global exploration chief for eight years, he retired in 2014 and became a visiting professor in Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford where he works on continental tectonics and resources.

Daly joined the Geological Survey of Zambia in 1976, mapping the remote Muchinga Mountains of northeast Zambia and publishing on the Precambrian Irumide Belt, Rift Valley formation and the evolution of the Congo Basin.

In 2006 Daly became BP's global exploration chief, achieving a series of giant oil and gas discoveries and BP's return to Iraq[1] and the Rumaila oil field, and entry into Oman and the Kazzan giant gas field.

Daly is an alumnus of Harvard Business School's Program for Management Development.