The President of Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, Elisabeth Elias, has announced the appointment of two new Trustees, Professor Robert Pickard and Dr Glenda Jones. Their terms of appointment will run from 1 June 2012 to 31 May 2016.
Mrs Elisabeth Elias, President of Amgueddfa Cymru, said:
‘I very much welcome these appointments and greatly look forward to working with Professor Robert Pickard and Dr Glenda Jones when they take up their positions as Trustees next June. Professor Pickard and Dr Jones will bring new and wide-ranging experience with them.’
Professor Robert Pickard is Emeritus Professor of Neurobiology at the University of Cardiff, Visiting Professor at the Royal Agricultural College and a Fellow of the Society of Biology and the Royal Society of Medicine. Formerly, he was Chairman of the NGO Forum for the Royal Society for Public Health and the UK Department of Health, Chairman of the UK Consumers’ Association, Which?, Director-General of the British Nutrition Foundation and Chairman of the UK Government’s Foresight Task Force, Food’s Contribution to Health in the Future. He has also served on the Welsh Ministerial Task Group, Food and Fitness for Children and Young People, the Expert Panel for School Meal Guidelines at the Caroline Walker Trust and the EuroFIR Council. Professor Pickard provides scientific advice for the communications media and a wide range of institutions, reports to the UK Minister for Energy in Westminster and the Ministers for the Environment in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and is an Independent Adviser to the Welsh Assembly Commission. He is also an international authority on the biology of honeybees and President of the Cardiff Beekeepers’ Association and the Central Association of Beekeepers.
Dr Glenda Jones is a graduate of Welsh literature from UCW Aberystwyth. She went on to study Medieval Welsh at Aberystwyth and for a period at St John’s College Cambridge gaining her PhD in 1991. Having worked in broadcasting for over 20 years she spent 15 years working for the BBC in Cardiff in their Television Production Department, starting as a television researcher, and then 10 years as Executive Producer for the Corporation, being responsible for its flagship daily drama series Pobol y Cwm. In 2000 she ventured into the freelance media and communications market and worked on a variety of production projects within the independent sector supplying material for S4C. Over the past 8 years she has spent an increasing amount of her time working in the field of training and facilitation for both public and private sector clients. Dr Jones is an Estyn lay inspector and was appointed member of the S4C Authority in April 2010.
