Lord Browne: ‘We are now approaching a very dangerous moment'
L ord Browne of Madingley is a modern-day renaissance man as happy discussing the arts as the sciences, an engineer by training and a collector and author, he is chairman of the Courtauld as well as the Francis Crick Institute. If you tell him he is a polymath he recoils at the idea, saying he can no longer recite reams of poetry but his house on Cheyne Walk overlooking the Thames is filled with extraordinary ceramics, sculptures and paintings.
He was also the chief executive of BP for more than a decade when it was at the height of its power and the sixth-largest company in the world until 'the Sun King' was forced to quit when he was outed as gay in 2007 just before his 60th birthday. So, he wrote a book called The Glass Closet: Why Coming Out is Good Business because 'I didn't want anyone else to go through what I went through.''
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