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Denise Bower

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Denise Bower
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
DisciplineCivil engineer
Sub-disciplineProject management
Institutions
WebsiteOfficial website

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]

Biography

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Education

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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

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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.

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Mott MacDonald Appoints Two Independent Members to its Shareholders' Committee". Mass Transit. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d "Executive director of MPA awarded OBE". Association for Project Management. 21 June 2018. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  3. ^ a b "ICE members recognised in the Queen's birthday Honours list 2018". Institution of Civil Engineers. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  4. ^ a b "Mott MacDonald appoints transport expert Professor Denise Bower OBE to Executive Board". tanknewsinternational.com. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  5. ^ a b c Nigel J. Smith, ed. (2002). ENGINEERING PROJECT MANAGEMENT (PDF). Blackwell Science. p. xiii (382). ISBN 0-632-05737-8.
  6. ^ a b c d "School of Civil Engineering - Professor Denise Bower". University of Leeds. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  7. ^ a b c "Professor Denise Bower awarded OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list". leeds.ac.uk. 12 June 2018. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  8. ^ "How to manage a megaproject after the COVID crisis". Construction News. 4 March 2021. Retrieved 12 April 2021.