Trevor Fowler
South African politician
Trevor Fowler is a South African politician and public servant who served in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature from 1994 to 2004, first as the legislature's inaugural Speaker and then, from 1999, as Premier Mbhazima Shilowa's Member of the Executive Council for Development Planning and Local Government. After his departure from the provincial legislature, he was chief operations officer in the Presidency of South Africa from 2004 to 2009 and city manager of the City of Johannesburg from 2011 to 2016. He is a civil engineer by training and a member of the African National Congress.
Life and career
Fowler was born in Cape Town and has a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering. During apartheid, he was a political exile in the United States, Canada, and Botswana. He returned to Cape Town in the early 1990s but shortly afterwards resettled in Johannesburg, then part of the Transvaal and now part of Gauteng province, where he worked in the construction sector until he entered frontline politics in 1994. Between 1994 and 2004, he was a Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature, and he served first as the inaugural Speaker of the provincial legislature and then, from 1999, as Member of the Executive Council for Development Planning and Local Government.
After the 2004 general election, Fowler left the Gauteng provincial legislature and Executive Council. He was initially appointed as political adviser to the Premier of Gauteng, Mbhazima Shilowa. However, later in 2004, he took up work as chief operations officer in the Presidency of South Africa.
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