Philip J. Carroll, Jr. (1937–2014) was an American businessman who was active in a variety of corporate and government roles. Carroll earned a Bachelor of Science in physics from

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in 1958 and a M.S. in physics from Tulane University in 1961, after which he joined the

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company as an engineer. He died in Houston, Texas, on October 6, 20

Carroll became the

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in 1993 and served in that position until July 1998, when he became the

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and

of Fluor Corporation, an engineering and construction services firm. He retired from Fluor in February 2002. He was a non-executive director of the British defense company

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. Carroll was a member of the

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of other companies, including Boise Cascade, Vulcan Materials,

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, Scottish Power, and Texas Medical Center. Carroll was an honorary life member of the board of the American Petroleum Institute, a member of the Tulane University advisory board, and the

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Institute for Public Policy at Rice University and the University of Houston. In the 1970s he briefly served as the director of the U.S. Department of Commerce's Energy Conservation Division and the Director of the National Industrial Energy Conservation Council. In 2003 he was appointed by the

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administration to head the policy planning advisory board of the Iraqi Oil Ministry. He opposed the neo conservative-backed plan to privatize Iraqi oil. He told Newsnight: "Many Neo-Conservatives are people who have certain ideological beliefs about markets, about democracy, about this, that and the other. International oil companies, without exception, are very pragmatic commercial organizations. They don't have a theology."

News

An American and 2 Iraqis to Assume Key Oil Posts
''New York Times'', May 2, 2003.
BBC with Greg Palast

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