Mamadou Marcel Blondin Beye is the general manager of Policy, Government and Public Affairs for Chevron Africa and Latin America Exploration and Production Company. He has nearly 20 years of experience with Chevron in roles spanning corporate policy, government affairs, international development, and business development. Beye has worked in Angola, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and played a lead role in Chevron's partnership initiative in Angola, which received awards from USAID and the U.S. Secretary of State.
1. Mamadou Marcel Blondin Beye is general manager of Policy, Government and Public Affairs for
Chevron Africa and Latin America Exploration and Production Company, based in Houston, Texas, a
position he assumed in January 2016.
Beye joined Chevron in 1997 as a business analyst and has amassed nearly 20 years of progressive,
diversified experience with Chevron encompassing Corporate Policy, Government Affairs, International
Development and Business Development. He has also worked in Angola, South Africa and the United
Kingdom, and has been instrumental on key company projects such as the West Africa Gas Pipeline and
the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline.
In Angola, Beye was Corporate Responsibility manager, where he played a lead role in the design,
implementation and evaluation of the Angola Partnership Initiative. This initiative was recipient of
USAID’s Global Development Alliance Partner of the Year award and runner-up of the U.S. Government
Secretary of State’s Award for Corporate Excellence in 2006.
Just before his current assignment, Beye was manager of International Affairs based in Washington,
D.C., where he implemented the company’s Government Affairs strategy for Africa. In that role, he
managed all Africa-related international policy and advocacy efforts with key public stakeholders
and provided strategic guidance, advice and counsel in support of the company’s new business
opportunities in Africa.
Beye is a frequent speaker on African oil and gas, doing business in Africa, and corporate responsibility
issues. He is chairman of the Niger Delta Partnership Initiative; has served on the board of directors
of AFRICARE; has been chairman of the U.S.-Angola Chamber of Commerce; and has represented
Chevron on the boards of the Corporate Council on Africa and the Africa-America Institute.
He holds a bachelor of business administration degree from HEC Montreal and an MBA from MIT’s Sloan
School of Management. Born in Mali, Beye is fluent in Bambara, English, French and Portuguese.
Mamadou Marcel Blondin Beye
General Manager
Policy, Government and Public Affairs
Chevron Africa and Latin America
Exploration and Production Company
Chevron Africa and Latin America
Exploration and Production Company
1400 Smith Street, Houston, TX 77002
January 2016 IDC 0216–102399
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