Gerry McGovern

Gerard Gabriel McGovern (born 1956 in Coventry) is an English car designer and was the Chief Creative Officer for Jaguar Land Rover leading the Group’s Design Studio at Gaydon, Warwickshire, creating concepts and new models. A strong advocate of design's relevance to brand equity, he is a member of the Jaguar Land Rover board of Management.

Background McGovern was born in Coventry in 1956 where he attended primary and Binley Park secondary schools. While still at the latter, he was introduced to Chrysler design boss Roy Axe, who was to remain a major influence. He joined the Executive Committee of Land Rover in June 2008.

Jaguar Land Rover McGovern joined the Executive Committee of Jaguar Land Rover when the two companies merged in 2013.

He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to automotive design.

As part of Jaguar’s repositioning strategy, Gerry McGovern led a major brand redesign. However, the new design language received mixed reviews. Some criticised the brand relaunch video as being too woke.

On 2 December 2025, Autocar India reported he had left the business and was 'escorted out of the building'.

On 14 December 2025, a JLR spokesperson stated that "it is untrue that Jaguar Land Rover have terminated Gerry McGovern's employment." In March 2026, JLR confirmed that McGovern was stepping down at the end of the month, to establish his own creative consultancy.

Land Rover designs McGovern’s first introduction was the LRX concept. LRX was subsequently confirmed for 2011 production and introduced as the compact two litre Range Rover Evoque, with anticipated CO2 emissions of 130g/km. The Range Rover Evoque is the smallest, lightest and most efficient Range Rover. Gerry McGovern has also guided the evolution of the 2010 Range Rover, Range Rover Sport and Discovery 4, the latter going on sale globally in September 2009. He then designed the 4th generation Range Rover and 2nd generation Range Rover Sport, released in 2012 and 2013; both of these quickly became successful. He then began the redesign of the Land Rover Freelander as the Discovery Sport. His most recent designs to be released are the New Defender in 2020 and the latest iteration of the Range Rover which was unveiled in October 2021.