Mark A. Crawford

Mark has practiced labor and employment law exclusively for more than twenty-five (25) years. Over his nearly 20-year career with BP, he has worked in the US and the UK and has provided legal support to BP’s operations in the Americas and across the world. 

He currently holds multiple senior roles with the company: (i) US General Counsel, (ii) senior vice president for legal for people and culture (HR), and (iii) senior vice president for diversity and inclusion. 

As the US GC, he is the most senior member of BP’s legal department in the US, with responsibility for administrative oversight of the in-country legal function.  He also provides legal advice to the senior leadership of BP America including the president of BP’s US operations, and serves as a member of the BP America leadership team. He also serves as BP's legal representative on several external groups and committees. 

As the VP for legal people and culture, Mark leads a global team of attorneys and support staff who provide labor, employment, and employee benefits support to BP's global operations. The team has responsibility for employment-related litigation, legal support for employee investigations and providing labor and employment legal advice on the full range of labor and employment legal issues, including the management of employee grievances, M&A activity, and employee discipline. In this role, Mark is a member of the leadership team for the legal department and  reports directly to the Group General Counsel. He oversees staff in the US, UK, Asian Pacific and continental Europe. 

Lastly, in his role as SVP for diversity and inclusion, Mark leads BP's global D&I team and is responsible for developing and implementing BP's D&I strategy across the company. As the head of D&I, Mark reports to the EVP for people and culture and is a member of the people and culture leadership team.

Mark previously led the Global Employee Relations and Industrial Relations team in the Human Resources function, where he had responsibility for leading a team of investigators which managed the HR and people-related investigations for BP’s global operations.  He also had responsibility for BP’s strategy for managing the company’s relationship with trade unions globally, including the provision of advice and support for union negotiations. Mark previously led the diversity and inclusion agenda for the legal function across the Americas, including Canada, Trinidad, Brazil and the US.

Prior to joining BP, Mark spent six years in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was an associate with one of the largest labor and employment boutique law firms in the US.  He is a native of Louisiana.  Mark is a 1991 graduate of Grambling State University with a BA in History and a 1995 graduate of the Southern University Law Center, where he was inducted into the SULC Hall of Fame in 2015. He is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity.

Mark resides in Houston with his wife and two sons.