Glamorgan County Cricket Club are delighted to announce that Dr Carol Bell has been appointed as Treasurer of the Club.
Bell, a fluent Welsh speaker, was the first woman to be appointed to the Board of the Football Association of Wales in 2019 and currently chairs its Finance Audit and Risk Committee. She also chaired the working group that produced its Sustainable Association for the Future report, whose recommendations are now being implemented.
An experienced industrialist and financier, she sits on the board of international listed companies, that have been investing in the energy transition and mining sectors.
Bell is also one of the founder directors of Chapter Zero, the network for non-executive directors to foster better discussion of climate risk and decarbonisation strategies on company boards.
She has recently retired from the boards of the Development Bank of Wales, Amgueddfa Cymru and the Wales Millennium Centre and holds Honorary Fellowships at Swansea University and the University of Wales Trinity St David. She was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2022 and is a Vice President of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (the London- based Welsh Learned Society).
Chair of Glamorgan Cricket, Mark Rhydderch-Roberts, said: "I am delighted to welcome Dr Carol Bell to the Glamorgan Board.
“Her vast experience in both the private and public sector in Wales, and internationally, will be invaluable as Glamorgan continues to develop and take advantage of the opportunities arising as the game of cricket undergoes generational change.
“All of us at Glamorgan look forward to working with Dr Bell and what we might achieve collectively.”
On her appointment as Treasurer, Dr Carol Bell said: “I have loved cricket from an early age, having been brought up in Felindre at the time when Alan and Eifion Jones were playing for Glamorgan.
“As a student, I was lucky enough to play women’s cricket and I look forward to being part of the Glamorgan Board at an exciting time for the development of the game both internationally and within Wales.”