Lydia I. Beebe

Lydia I. Beebe is a corporate governance expert, serving on three corporate boards of directors and advising companies, boards and directors on governance issues.  She provides advice on governance matters through LIBB Advisors, LLC, the firm she founded.  Lydia is the chair of the board of EQT Corporation (NYSE: EQT) and she serves on the Corporate Governance and the Management Development and Compensation Committees. She is a director of Kansas City Southern (NYSE: KSU) and is on Kansas City Southern's Nominating and Corporate Governance and its Compensation Committees. Lydia is also a director of Aemetis Inc. (Nasdaq: AMTX), a member of its Audit Committee, and chair of its Governance, Compensation and Nominating Committee.  She was formerly a director of HCC Insurance Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: HCC), serving as chair of its Nominating and Governance Committee and a member of the Compensation Committee, until its acquisition by Tokio Marine in late 2015.

In April 2015, Lydia retired as corporate secretary and chief governance officer of Chevron Corporation, where since 1995 she had served as chief governance officer and secretary to the board of directors, the Executive Committee, and the Board Nominating and Governance Committee.  Lydia, Chevron's first woman officer, provided advice and counsel to the Chevron board of directors and senior management on corporate governance matters and managed the company's corporate governance function. She was Senior of Counsel at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati from June 2015 until July 2017.  Lydia is was the Co-Director of the Stanford Institutional Investors' Forum from 2015 until 2018. She was Chair of the board of directors of the Northern California Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors in 2016 and 2017, having served on its board since 2009.  

Throughout her career, Lydia has been active on many public and non-profit governing boards.  In 2003, President George W. Bush appointed her to the board of directors of the Presidio Trust, where she served until 2008.  Governor Pete Wilson appointed Lydia to the California Fair Employment and Housing Commission in 1991, where she served until 1999 and chaired the Commission for the final five years.  In recognition of the accomplishments made during her tenure leading the Commission, she was honored in 2009 as Civil Rights Hero by the State of California.

From 2008 until 2014, Lydia served on the governing board of the National Judicial College and was awarded the College's Advancement of Justice Award in 2015.  She has also served on the governing boards of the Professional Business Women of California, the Society for Corporate Governance, and the Council of Institutional Investors, and she currently serves on the governing boards of Kansas University Endowment Association, the San Francisco Symphony, and the International Women's Forum of Northern California.

Lydia is a frequent speaker and panelist on corporate governance topics. She has been named Corporate Secretary of the Year by Corporate Secretary magazine, a distinguished alumna by both the University of Kansas School of Law and Golden Gate University, and a member of the Kansas University Women's Hall of Fame.  She received lifetime achievement awards in from the Professional Business Women of California in 2015 and Corporate Secretary magazine in 2014. In 2010, she received the Founder's Award for exceptional business leadership from the Women's Initiative.  She received the Breakthrough Award from the Professional Business Women of California in 1996 and has been recognized by the San Francisco Business Times as one of the most influential businesswomen in the Bay Area for more than a decade.

Lydia and her husband have three adult children and live in San Francisco.