Gwynneth Flower

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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) developing a more commercial approach to business.

In 1991 Flower set up CENTEC, the largest of the country's Training and Enterprise Councils, and was managing director of Action 2000, [1] which was responsible to the prime minister for ensuring that the UK economy did not suffer material disruption as a result of the so-called Millennium bug.

She is Honorary Treasurer and Member of Council of the Royal Institution of Great Britain and a director and trustee of two national charities. She was a non-executive director of Ordnance Survey to 2002 when her term expired.

She holds honorary doctorates from the Open University and from De Montfort University.

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  1. People & Business by John Willcock. The Independent, 11 March 1998. Retrieved 18 July 2011.