BRITISH MANAGEMENT DATA FOUNDATION
Biography of Anthony Cowgill, the Director of the BMDF
© Photograph copyright Drew Gardner, Sunday Telegraph 2004
The Director of the BMDF is Anthony Cowgill MBE (on the left of the picture, together with his son, Andrew), who has been the Director of the BMDF since the Foundation was formed in 1979.
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Anthony Cowgill was educated at Bradford Grammar School, Manchester Grammar School and Birmingham University, where he took a degree in Mining.
He was commissioned into the British Army in 1939 and served in NW Europe, India, Pakistan and Korea. He retired from the Army as a Brigadier in 1969.
He then joined Rolls-Royce as Chief Industrial Engineer. He retired from this in 1977 to become the director of the BMDF.
He headed British Management Advanced Tech study teams to US, Japan and Europe between 1980 and 1992.
He was chairman of a Klagenfurt Conspiracy inquiry between 1986 and 1990 which examined and exonorated Harold Macmillan (late Earl of Stockton) and senior British Army officers of war crimes charges in 1945.
His published books are:
Management of Automation (1982);
The Repatriations from Austria in 1945 (with Lord Brimelow and Christopher Booker, 1990), published in two volumes;
Inward Investment and UK Links with the EC (1993);
Books on the European Treaties, prepared with his son Andrew :
The Maastricht Treaty in Perspective (1992);
The Treaty of Amsterdam in Perspective (1998).
The Treaty of Nice in Perspective (2001).
An Analysis of the draft Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe (2003).
