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<div align="center"><b>Technology Executives @MIT Lecture
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<div align="center"><b>Sponsored by the Office of Corporate
Relations</b></div>
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<div align="center"><b>Fran Keeth</b></div>
<div align="center"><b>Executive Vice President</b></div>
<div align="center"><b>Shell Chemicals</b></div>
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<div align="center"><font size="+1"><b>"China: Opportunities and
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<div align="center"><font size="+1"><b>Chemical Industry in the Next
Decade"</b></font></div>
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<div align="center"><b>Thursday, March 2, 2006 @ 5:00 pm</b></div>
<div align="center"><b>Building 66 Room 110</b></div>
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<div><b>Abstract:</b></div>
<div>Over the next 5 to 10 years China's continuing and rapid economic
growth will offer very significant business opportunities for foreign
chemical companies. These will include opportunities to import
products to China and to manufacture and trade within China. However
those opportunities will come with significant changes. Shell
Chemicals' global business strategy is increasingly focusing on China
and Asian Pacific and Ms. Keeth will discuss how we approach the
challenges and opportunities of doing business in China.</div>
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<div><font size="-1" color="#000000"><b>Biography:</b></font></div>
<div>Fran Keeth holds both global and regional positions with Shell.
At the global level she is Executive Vice President Chemicals. At the
regional level she is President of Shell Chemical LP, a US operating
company. Fran is on the Board of the American Chemistry Council and
chairs the Board Committee on Responsible Care as well as being a
member of the Executive Committee and Long Range Research Committee.
Fran also serves on the board of the International Council of Chemical
Associations.</div>
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<div>Fran earned a bachelor's degree in accounting, an MBA and a JD
degree, all from the University of Houston in Texas. She joined Shell
Oil Company in 1970 where she held positions of increasing
responsibility in the Head Office Finance and Tax departments. In
1988, she assumed the position of Assistant General Counsel,
Litigation & Research. She was named General Manager, Auditing, in
1989, and General Manager, Products Finance, in 1991. In 1992, she
moved to London to handle a series of assignments in Shell
International Petroleum Company as Deputy Group Controller, Area
Coordinator for the Far East, and Finance Manager, Oil Products.</div>
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<div>In 1996, Fran left Shell to join Mobil Corporation as Controller
and Principal Accounting Officer. A year later, she returned to Shell
and assumed the position of Executive Vice President (EVP) Finance and
Business Systems, for Shell Chemicals Limited. She was appointed to
the position of EVP - Customer Fulfilment and Product Business Units
in 2001 and assumed her current role in January 2005.</div>
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