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Non-Executive Director

Elodie Grant Goodey is a social performance professional with 25 years’ experience in societal risk assessment, social performance, human rights, government and civil society relations. She has a valuable track record of managing key stakeholders at executive and frontline levels in a FTSE100 company.

Elodie was formerly Head of Societal Issues and Relationships at BP, leading social policy management, social risk assessment, advocacy and stakeholder engagement. In this role, she was responsible for the company’s position on societal issues such as human rights, transparency and accountability and led the cross-functional team that drafted business and human rights policy, impacting communities and supply chains in more than 100 countries. She also provided non-technical risk assessment for new country entries and current operations and acted as the relationship manager for selected international NGOs and Responsible Investors. She represented BP on the Board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). She also worked as Head of Communications for BP’s Upstream business and as External Affairs Director for BP’s North Africa business (Algeria/Libya) where she led the reputation management and external affairs agenda in Algeria and Libya. Previously, Elodie worked for the BBC World Service and volunteered for a number of human rights NGOs. As a consultant over the past five years, Elodie has worked human rights and social performance projects for the extractive industry in Africa, Latin America and Europe.

Until January 2020, she was Non-Executive Director for Amerisur Resources, an E&P company operating in Colombia.

Elodie is trained in History and Politics at the University of London (UK) and the Sorbonne (France). She is based in the United Kingdom and is bilingual in English and French.