Ian Prosser has been appointed board chairman of JKX Oil & Gas, an exploration and production company, listed on the London Stock Exchange, which has four licenses for oil and gas field development in Poltava Oblast.
Ukrainian billionaire Igor Kolomoisky has in the past year consolidated a nearly 30 percent stake in JKX.
Prosser is chairman of The Navy Army & Air Force Institutes, BP Pension Trustees Ltd and a non-executive director of Sara Lee Corporation, based in Chicago.
Formerly, Prosser was non-executive deputy chairman of BP Plc, chairman and CEO of Bass PLC, chairman of InterContinental Hotels and also senior independent director of GlaxoSmithKline.
Prosser was educated at Birmingham University, where he graduated as a Bachelor of Commerce. He was knighted in 1995.
