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Christopher Macgowan - SMMT Chief Executive
Background:
Christopher worked for British Leyland early in his career and lived
in Canada for a number of years. He joined Massey Ferguson in 1973
and more recently Ransomes plc. He was chief executive of the Retail
Motor Industry Federation from 1996 - 1999. Christopher Macgowan joined
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders in June 1999 as chief
executive.
Name of Company: SMMT
What drives Christopher is his determination to maintain and enhance
the reputation of the United Kingdom as a great country in which to
design, manufacture, sell, use and service automotive products. The
UK has for many years enjoyed a high level of inward investment by
many global automotive manufacturers and successfully hosts factories
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Other work:
Outside his day-to-day responsibilities Christopher Macgowan has undertaken
the following activities:
- Listed in Car Magazine's top 300 biggest hitters in the motor industry,
he is a CBI Trade association council member, a Freeman of the City of
London and a Fellow of the Institute of the Motor Industry.
- He is a director of SMMT Ltd and Odette International Ltd and sits
on the management boards of SMMT Industry Forum and BEN - the automotive
industry-wide charity.
- Christopher is a member of the Department of Trade and Industry Retail
Motor Strategy Group and its Vehicle Industry Policy and European Regulation
Group.
- Partnered with government, the Home Office Vehicle Crime Reduction
Action team helps further reduce vehicle crime. Christopher is a member
of the team as well as of the government's Motorist's Forum which helps
government and industry work together to keep the motorists interests
firmly on the agenda.
- Christopher is a trustee of the National Motor Museum and a member
of the Worshipful Company of Coachmakers.
He has a passion for information technology and for many years has run the
global automotive e-mail group producing the weekly newsletter DESKTOP.COM.
Readers of DESKTOP.COM also know of his love of National Hunt Racing.
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