Cricket club appoints former banker as its new treasurer

GLAMORGAN County Cricket Club has appointed Dr Carol Bell has as its new treasurer.

Dr Bell started her career in the oil and gas industry – where she remains active in supporting the decarbonisation agenda – before moving into banking where she held senior posts at Credit Suisse First Boston, JP Morgan and Chase Manhattan Bank. She 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. She is also one a founding director of Chapter Zero, the network for non-executive directors to foster better discussion of climate risk and decarbonisation strategies on company boards.

Recently retired from the boards of the Development Bank of Wales, Amgueddfa Cymru and the Wales Millennium Centre, she holds honorary fellowships at Swansea University and the University of Wales Trinity St David.

She takes up the treasurer and board role after former club treasurer Mark Rhydderch-Roberts was appointed chair.

She 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, and as a student was lucky enough to play women’s cricket.

“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.”