Liam Denning, Columnist

Mr. Exxon Goes to Washington (Maybe)

How Exxon's CEO could affect energy and policy as Secretary of State.

December 7, 2016 at 3:34 PM UTC

Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column.

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"Rex Tillerson" is just about the perfect name for a Texan oil executive.

I'd venture that its juxtaposition of regal authority with (literally) down-to-earth labor identity also makes it pretty well-suited to working under the populist president-elect.