Lecture: Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil Chairman and CEO

Rex W. Tillerson is the chairman and chief executive officer of ExxonMobil.  He will be on BYU campus to discuss leadership.  Please join us for a broadcast of his remarks in either 214 CTB or the Weidman Center for Global Leadership (264 CB).  This is a very unique opportunity to hear from the leader of the one of the world's largest engineering companies. 

A native of Wichita Falls, Texas, Rex Tillerson earned a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering at the University of Texas at Austin before joining Exxon Company, U.S.A. in 1975 as a production engineer.

In December 1999, he became executive vice president of ExxonMobil Development Company. Mr. Tillerson was named senior vice president of Exxon Mobil Corporation in August 2001, and was elected president of the corporation and member of the board of directors on March 1, 2004. He assumed his current position on January 1, 2006.

Mr. Tillerson is the vice-chairman of the Ford’s Theatre Society, immediate past national president of the Boy Scouts of America, and a former director of the United Negro College Fund. He is also a member of the Chancellor’s Council, Development Board and the Engineering Advisory Board for the University of Texas at Austin, where he was named a distinguished alumnus in 2007. In 2011, he received an honorary doctorate engineering degree from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute.  (See full bio)