Sir Edward Michael Coulson Fowler was a New Zealand architect and author who served as mayor of Wellington from 1974 to 1983.

The Mayor of Wellington is the head of the municipal government of the City of Wellington. The mayor presides over the Wellington City Council. The mayor is directly elected using the Single Transferable Vote method of proportional representation. The current mayor is Tory Whanau, elected in October 2022 for a three-year-term.