Philip J. Carroll

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 Loyola University New Orleans in 1958 and a M.S. in physics from Tulane University in 1961, after which he joined the Shell Oil company as an engineer. He died in Houston, Texas, on October 6, 2014. Carroll became the CEO of Shell Oil in 1993 and served in that position until July 1998, when he became the chairman and CEO 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 BAE Systems. Carroll was a member of the board of directors of other companies, including Boise Cascade, Vulcan Materials, American Express, 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 James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University and the University of Houston.