Linn Tonsberg is Director, air bp Middle East & Africa and Managing Director bp Middle East LLC. Based in Dubai, she is responsible for leading Air bp’s business across the region. Additionally, Linn represents bp in the capacity of General Manager and Board Director in multiple bp Joint Ventures across the Middle East.

Linn brings 18 years of highly relevant commercial and business development experience to her role. She joined air bp in 2013 and since then has held roles of increasing responsibility including: Global Account Director, based in London responsible for managing fuel supply contracts with commercial airlines; Business Development Manager in the Middle East and Africa based in the UAE; and most recently, Global Director of Process Excellence, with responsibility for managing Air bp’s process transformation, leveraging its digital agenda for end-to-end sales and the customer journey.

Linn is a graduate of bp’s Future Leaders Programme which is an accelerated development programme that allows participants to build experience and exposure across the breadth of global businesses and prepares them for a senior leadership career. She holds an MBA from INSEAD Business School.

About Air bp

As the aviation division of bp, Air bp is one of the world’s leading suppliers of aviation fuel products and services. It has been investing in the aviation industry for more than 90 years to keep people flying safely around the world. In 2019 we supplied over 6.7 billion gallons of aviation fuel, fuelling over 7,000 flights per day at over 700 locations in more than 55 countries – that’s more than five planes a minute.

Its customers include commercial airlines, the military, business and private aircraft owners, airports and airfield operators. Air bp has a wide range of services to support its fuel offer including the design, build and operation of fuelling facilities, technical consultancy and training, solutions to potentially help customers with direct and indirect carbon emissions savings, the Sterling card for efficient general aviation refuelling and innovative digital platforms to increase efficiency and reduce risk.