Gwynneth Flower is a former chair of the
National Meteorological Programme, a position she held until 2007.
Flower is also a director of 2change Ltd, a management advisory business. Additionally, she has an interim management role in support of the
Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)
The Ministry of Defence (MOD or MoD) is the department responsible for implementing the defence policy set by His Majesty's Government, and is the headquarters of the British Armed Forces.
The MOD states that its principal objectives are to ...
developing a more commercial approach to business.
In 1991 Flower set up
CENTEC, the largest of the country's
Training and Enterprise Council
Training and enterprise councils (TECs) were local bodies established in England and Wales in the early 1990s to administer publicly funded training programmes, replacing the former Manpower Services Commission. The first group of 19 TECs were lau ...
s, and was managing director of
Action 2000,
''People & Business'' by John Willcock.
The Independent, 11 March 1998. Retrieved 18 July 2011. which was responsible to the prime minister
A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...
for ensuring that the UK economy did not suffer material disruption as a result of the so-called Millennium bug
The year 2000 problem, also known as the Y2K problem, Y2K scare, millennium bug, Y2K bug, Y2K glitch, Y2K error, or simply Y2K refers to potential computer errors related to the formatting and storage of calendar data for dates in and after ...
.
She is Honorary Treasurer and Member of Council of the Royal Institution
The Royal Institution of Great Britain (often the Royal Institution, Ri or RI) is an organisation for scientific education and research, based in the City of Westminster. It was founded in 1799 by the leading British scientists of the age, inc ...
of Great Britain
Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island and the ninth-largest island in the world. It is ...
and a director and trustee of two national charities. She was a non-executive director of Ordnance Survey
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to 2002 when her term expired.
She holds honorary doctorates from the Open University
The Open University (OU) is a British public research university and the largest university in the United Kingdom by number of students. The majority of the OU's undergraduate students are based in the United Kingdom and principally study off- ...
and from De Montfort University.
References
External links
Prufrock: The fib that stopped Flower blossoming. The Sunday Times, 9 March 2003.
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)