Colette Bowe

Dame Mary Colette Bowe, DBE (born 1946) is a British administrator. She chairs the Banking Standards Board, and is also the chairman of ABRSM, a music exam board, and former chair of Ofcom, a regulatory authority in the UK. Formerly an Ofcom board member, she took up her post on 11 March 2009, replacing Lord Currie.[1]

Bowe attended Notre Dame Catholic College, Queen Mary College, London and the London School of Economics. In 1986 she was caught up in the Westland affair when, as Chief Information Officer to the Department for Trade and Industry, she was ordered to leak to the Press Association a letter written by the Solicitor-General which supported the government's stance and opposed that of Michael Heseltine; she refused to disclose exactly who had given the order.[2]

She was appointed Chair of Ofcom's advisory consumer panel in 2003 and moved onto the main board. A trained economist, she studied at Queen Mary College, London, where Currie was also an academic. She went on to work in the same role at the former Independent Broadcasting Authority, a forerunner of Ofcom, and a range of City bodies.[1] She was succeeded as chair of Ofcom by Dame Patricia Hodgson in April 2014.

She was founding chairman of the Telecoms Ombudsman Council and the Ofcom Consumer Panel. She is also a former executive chairman of Fleming Fund Management, chief executive of the Personal Investment Authority, and a director of the Securities and Investment Board. In February 2013 she was assessed as one of the most powerful women in the United Kingdom by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4.[3]

She was appointed as a Trustee of the Nuffield Foundation in December 2011,[4] and ABRSM chairman in July 2012. She was appointed chair of the Banking Standards Board in 2015.

Honours

Bowe was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to media and communications.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 Colette Bowe confirmed as OFCOM chair, 17 December 2008; retrieved 18 March 2014.
  2. ↑ Campbell, John (2007). Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady. London: Random House. p. 490.
  3. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3J92brPmK0hskzhpTV3CrZ0/the-power-list-2013
  4. ↑ http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/trustees#Colette Bowe
  5. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 60728. p. 7. 31 December 2013.

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