Current Trustees

The Trust Deed provides for a total of nineteen Trustees, six of whom are ex-officio Trustees.

Chair of the Foundation and of the Examining Committee:

Gwerfyl Pierce Jones
(Now retired and formerly Director of the Welsh Books Council).

Chair of the Executive Committee:

Professor Derec Llwyd Morgan
(now retired and formerly Vice Chancellor of Aberystwyth University).

Ex-Officio Trustees (6):

The Most Reverend John Davies
Archbishop of Wales.

Mrs Melda Grantham
General Secretary of the Welsh Department of Unitarian Churches

Reverend Judith Morris
General Secretary of the Baptist Union of Wales

Reverend Meirion Morris
General Secretary of the Presbyterian Church of Wales

Reverend Dyfrig Rees
General Secretary, Union of Welsh Independents

Mr Gethin Thomas
Chair of the Council of the National Eisteddfod of Wales

Ordinary Trustees (12):

Professor Jane Aaron
Formerly Professor of English at the University of South Wales

Dr Eurfyl ap Gwilym
Former Deputy Chair of the Principality Building Society and current Chair of the Principality Pension Trustees

Reverend Dr R Alun Evans
Minister of Religion and formerly Head of the BBC in North Wales

Mr Alun Charles
Retired schools’ inspector and author

Dr Rhidian Griffiths
Formerly of the National Library of Wales

Mr Geraint R Jones
Formerly Chief Executive, Gwynedd County Council

Mr David Gwynder Lewis
Chairman Hunters and Frankau Group Ltd and formerly Vice Chairman of Hambros

Miss Siân Lloyd Jones
Formerly Chief Executive of Finance Wales

Mr Wyn Penri Jones
Formerly Credit and Commercial Banking Manager

Mr Ken Richards
Formerly Senior Lecturer in Economics, Aberystwyth University

Dr Eryn White
Reader in the Department of History and Welsh History at Aberystwyth University