New Year Honours 2020
Professor Gerard Gabriel MCGOVERN OBE
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
“Chief Creative Officer, Land Rover. For services to Automotive Design”
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Chief Creative Officer, Land Rover. For services to Automotive Design
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Order of the British Empire
Civil Division
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
28 December 2019
THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire:
O.B.E.
To be Ordinary Officers of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order:
Professor Gerard Gabriel McGOVERN
Chief Creative Officer, Land Rover
For services to Automotive Design.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 62866 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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The Officer of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 275 times in the New Year Honours List 2020 — about 20% of the list.
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95 Officer of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from Warwickshire.
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire · 2020
London Gazette (official record), issue 62866, notice 3454967. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2020).
Published 30 December 2019.
Location (Warwickshire) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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