Biography
Lydia I. Beebe is a corporate governance expert, serving on two 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 a director of EQT Corporation (NYSE:EQT) and Aemetis Inc. (Nasdaq:AMTX). She chairs EQT’s board and is a member of its Corporate Governance and Management Development and Compensation Committees, and she chairs Aemetis’ Governance, Compensation and Nominating Committee. She was a director of Kansas City Southern (NYSE:KSU until December 2021; then held in Voting Trust until approval of its acquisition by Canadian Pacific in April 2023) from May 2017 until April 2023, and 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. Lydia served on Kansas City Southern’s Nominating and Corporate Governance and its Compensation and Organization Committees.
In April 2015, Lydia retired as corporate secretary and chief governance officer of Chevron Corporation, a position she held since 1995 when she was elected Chevron’s first woman corporate officer. She was Senior of Counsel at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati from June 2015 until July 2017.
Throughout her career, Lydia has been active on many public and non-profit governing boards. She is currently an advisory board member for the Stanford University Rock Center for Corporate Governance, and she is Chair of the Kansas University Endowment Association Board of Trustees. She served on the University of Delaware Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance Advisory Board until 2020 and 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. 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 a Civil Rights Hero by the State of California.
