Colette Bowe

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Dame Mary Colette Bowe DBE is the chair of Ofcom, a regulatory authority in the United Kingdom.

Bowe, previously an Ofcom board member, took up her post on 11 March 2009, replacing Lord Currie.

Bowe was made 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.

Bowe then worked in the same role at the former Independent Broadcasting Authority– a forerunner of Ofcom – and a range of City bodies.

Bowe was the 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.

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.^[1]

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↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 60728. p. 7. 31 December 2013.

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