Denise Bower
Denise Bower is an English civil engineer and academic. She is Professor[1] of Engineering Project Management[2][3] at the University of Leeds, and an executive director at Mott MacDonald.[4]
Denise Bower | |
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| Discipline | Civil engineer |
| Sub-discipline | Project management |
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| Website | Official website |
Biography
Education
Bower received her Bachelor of Engineering[5] in civil engineering from the University of Manchester in 1990. In 1995, she earned her Doctor of Philosophy[5] in project management from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.[6]
Career
Bower began a research assistant position at UMIST in 1991, and later became a Shell lecturer of project management there.[5]
She was the director of the Engineering Project Academy at the University of Leeds[1] in West Yorkshire, England from 2011 until 2016. While still working at the University of Leeds, she began working as executive director of the Major Projects Association.[7] She worked at MPA until 2020.
In 2016, she became an independent advisor for Mott MacDonald,[1] and continued in that capacity until 2020 when she became executive director of external engagement.[8][4]
She has been a professor at the University of Leeds for over 20 years.
Distinctions
- Honorary Fellow of the Association for Project Management[7] "for her work in collaboration with Infrastructure UK (UK Treasury) to develop an Infrastructure Routemap to enable more informed project and programme initiation and delivery decisions." (2014)[2]
- Member of UK's All-Party Parliamentary Group on Smart Cities[2]
- Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers[7]
- Council Member at the Institution of Civil Engineers[6]
- Chair of the Capacity Building and Professionalism Panels at the Institution of Civil Engineers[6]
- Judge for Wolfson Economics Prize (2014)[6]
Awards
- Order of the British Empire "for services to the Engineering and Construction Industries"[3][2]
References
- "Mott MacDonald Appoints Two Independent Members to its Shareholders' Committee". Mass Transit. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
- "Executive director of MPA awarded OBE". Association for Project Management. 21 June 2018. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
- "ICE members recognised in the Queen's birthday Honours list 2018". Institution of Civil Engineers. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
- "Mott MacDonald appoints transport expert Professor Denise Bower OBE to Executive Board". tanknewsinternational.com. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
- Nigel J. Smith, ed. (2002). ENGINEERING PROJECT MANAGEMENT (PDF). Blackwell Science. p. xiii (382). ISBN 0-632-05737-8.
- "School of Civil Engineering - Professor Denise Bower". University of Leeds. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
- "Professor Denise Bower awarded OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list". leeds.ac.uk. 12 June 2018. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
- "How to manage a megaproject after the COVID crisis". Construction News. 4 March 2021. Retrieved 12 April 2021.