Jennifer Anne "Jennie" Page,[1] CBE (born 12 November 1944)[2] was chief executive of the London Millennium Dome project from 1 March 1995[3] until she resigned after a flawed opening night and poor early attendance at the start of 2000.
[4][5] She was later educated at Royal Holloway, University of London[4] where, as an undergraduate she had been awarded the George Smith Studentship[1] and where she obtained a First-Class Honours BA degree in English in 1966[1] followed by a Driver postgraduate scholarship.
"Before the appointments at English Heritage and the Dome project she was a civil servant[2][4] in the Departments of the Environment and Transport, Britoil (formerly BNOC), London Docklands Development Corporation, and Pallas Group.
[10] The Society issued claims for negligence against nine former directors, including Page, but in 2005 conceded total defeat in a four-year £3.2bn legal action to obtain compensation for policyholders.
Cracks developing behind the scenes began to show in January 1998 when Stephen Bayley, creative director of the project, resigned.
She was replaced by an unknown 34-year-old Frenchman, Pierre-Yves Gerbeau, known as "P-Y" and also nicknamed "the Gerbil" by the popular press, who had previously worked for the Disneyland Paris theme park.
It meant many parents would no longer pay to visit with their families, and forced the building of extra facilities for the large school parties.