National President (Volunteer)
Rex Tillerson
Rex Tillerson serves as the 33rd national president of the Boy Scouts of America. Tillerson is the chairman and CEO of Exxon Mobil Corporation. Named by Fortune as one of the 25 most powerful people in business, Tillerson oversees more than 80,000 employees on six continents. He joined Exxon as a production engineer in 1975 and rose quickly through the ranks before assuming leadership of operations in Russia and parts of the Middle East during the 1990s. Following Exxon’s merger with Mobil Corporation in 1999, Tillerson became an executive vice president. He assumed his current position of chairman and CEO in 2006.
Among many additional responsibilities, he is a trustee of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, vice chairman of the Ford’s Theatre Society, an honorary trustee of the Business Council for International Understanding, and a member of the Emergency Committee for American Trade. A former director of the United Negro College Fund, he is also a member of the Chancellor’s Council and the Engineering Advisory Board for the University of Texas at Austin and the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
Tillerson, an Eagle Scout, is a member of the BSA’s National Executive Board and is active in the Circle Ten Council in Dallas. He is also a recipient of the Silver Buffalo Award, the highest commendation given by the BSA for extraordinary service to youth.
Under Tillerson’s leadership, ExxonMobil is working with the BSA on programs that incorporate meaningful science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education into the Scouting experience.
A native of Wichita Falls, Texas, Tillerson is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. He and his wife, Renda, have four children.
About the Boy Scouts of America
The Boy Scouts of America provides the nation's foremost youth program of character development and values-based leadership training, which helps young people be "Prepared. For Life.™" The Scouting organization is composed of 2.7 million youth members between the ages of 7 and 21 and more than a million volunteers in local councils throughout the United States and its territories.