Board Members

Chair - Professor Laura McAllister

Laura McAllister is Professor of Governance at the University of Liverpool's School of Management. She was educated at Bryntirion Comprehensive School, Bridgend and is a graduate of the London School of Economics and Cardiff University where she completed a PhD in politics. Laura was a member of the Richard Commission on the Powers and Electoral Arrangements for National Assembly for Wales that reported in March 2004 and provided research advice to the Independent Panel on AMs' Pay and Support in 2008-09. She is Honorary Visiting Professor at Cardiff University, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia and the China National School of Administration, Beijing.

A former Wales football international and national team captain with 24 caps, Laura is currently Chair of Sport Wales. Laura is a Board Member of UK Sport and the Welsh Football Trust. She is project sponsor for sport at the University of Liverpool, and chairs the Sport Liverpool Strategy Group. She is a Trustee of Stonewall UK and the Institute of Welsh Affairs, as well as a member of the Wales Advisory Committee of the British Council. Laura holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Bangor and Glamorgan.

Vice - Chair - Adele Baumgardt

Adele is an independent consultant having previously worked in Equal Opportunities Commission. Now a self employed consultant on all aspects of equality and diversity, Adele's experience includes delivering equality strategies in public, private and voluntary sectors with particular expertise in the new 'positive' equality duty.

Adele was the Wales Commissioner for the Women's National Commission until December 2010 when the Commission was closed as part of the Westminster Government's quango review. She is on the management Board of Women's Equality Network Wales and is actively campaigning for both the Welsh and UK Governments to support systems to engage with Welsh women.

Adele was a Board Member of Sport Wales until March 2012 and has actively worked on increasing women and girls participation in sport for a number of years.   She also chairs the Public Transport Users Committee for Wales for which she receives remuneration of £114 per day for a commitment of around 24 days a year.

David Lloyd Roberts

David is a partner in Huw James law firm in Cardiff.

Born in Bangor, he was educated in Wrexham and at Cambridge University.

Welsh sprint champion on nine occasions, David represented Britain at the 100 metres and 4 x 100 metre relay between 1974 and 1978 at the European Championships as well as also representing Wales at the Commonwealth Games.

Martin Warren

Martin was born and raised in Cardiff attending Cardiff High School. He represented Wales at school cricket, going on to play for Cardiff Cricket club for 12 years. A graduate of Hull University in Mathematics he represented the University in both Football and Cricket.

A Chartered Accountant, Martin became a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in 1989, working in both the private and public sectors and is currently Director of Finance at Cardiff Metropolitan University. For 5 years, Martin was Chairman of UWIC Inter Cardiff, engineering the merger of the two clubs into the then League of Wales. He is also a trustee of the national charity Young Enterprise where he is Chair of the Risk and Audit Committee.

Professor John Baylis

John Baylis represented the Welsh Universities at soccer and athletics. He also played in the North and West Wales cricket leagues.

Until he retired he was Professor of Politics and International Relations and Pro-Vice Chancellor, responsible for Sport, External Relations and Human Resources, at Swansea University.

Previously he had been a Professor and Dean of Social Sciences at Aberystwyth University.

He also spent five years as a member of the Governing Board at the Wales National Swimming Pool.

Richard Cuthbertson

Richard Andrew Cuthbertson is Chairman of DMM Group which makes and sells sports and safety equipment.

He is also Chairman of Damos Construction.  He is Chairman of Wild Country Group, a manufacturer of rock climbing equipment, was Chairman of the National Trust Wales (1997-2008) and a Council Member of Princes Trust Cymru (2002-2008).  He is Treasurer of Black Environment Network and Non Executive Director of Cofnod and Agored Cymru.

Andrew Morgan

A former scratch handicap golfer, Andy Morgan is the current non playing Captain of the European Amateur Golf Team and is a former President of both the European Golf Association and the Welsh Golfing Union.

As a Director of Ryder Cup Wales 2010 Ltd, he was a member of the Audit Committee and Chairman of Golf Development Wales.

During his time on the International Golf Federation (World Amateur Golf Council), golf was readmitted as an Olympic sport.

Andy is a member of the Fundraising and Marketing Committee of Tenovus, the Welsh based cancer charity and is a retired Dental Surgeon.

Simon Pirotte

Simon Pirotte is Principal and Chief Executive of Coleg Powys.

He has previously held the positions of Deputy Principal at Bridgend College and also Director of Sport, Lifestyle and Business at Swansea College.  He has been a Lecturer at UWIC and Gorseinon College and Head of Drama  at Los Angeles School District Westchester High School.

He is the Artistic Director for Welsh Glamorgan Youth Theatre and Steel Wasp Theatre Company.

Paul Thorburn

Paul Thorburn is Managing Director of Paul Thorburn Limited, a Business Development Consultancy.  From 2006-2010 he was Strategic Development Manager for Ospreys Rugby Limited.  From 2007-2010 he was a Committee Member for European Rugby Limited.  He has been a Special Projects Manager for the Welsh Rugby Union and was Tournament Director for the  1999 Rugby World Cup.

He is a former Neath RFC and international Wales Rugby Union player who played at full back. He also captained Wales. He retired from playing in 1991.

Alan Watkin

Alan Watkin was until recently the Chief Libraries, Leisure and Culture Officer in Wrexham County Borough Council.

He was Cultural Advisor to the Wales Local Government Association, a Member of the Legacy Trust Advisory Board for the Cultural Olympiad in Wales and a Member of the Welsh books Council.  He was also a Member of the Wales Arts Review panel.

Julia Longville

Julia is a Senior Lecturer in the Cardiff School of Sport at Cardiff Metropolitan University (UWIC).  She was educated at Barry Grammar School for Girls and Bryn Hafren Comprehensive School, Barry.  She has a University of Wales MSc coaching Science degree from UWIC and a Certificate of Education teaching qualification and a B.Ed from Barry Teacher Training College.  Julia is an Estyn independent inspector and education consultant.  She works regularly with colleagues throughout Wales to develop Physical Education and School Sport.

A former Wales netball international with 25 caps, Julia played at European and World Championship level.  She is a former international coach who took the Welsh U21 and senior team to numerous European and World Championships, and the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in 2006.

Janet Kingston

Jan started teaching in Croesyceiliog Comprehensive before moving to Cwmcarn High School as Assistant Head. Next came a move to Risca Community Comprehensive firstly as Deputy Head and then as Headteacher. Jan is currently Headteacher at Ysgol Greenhill School in Tenby.

Jan believes passionately in the potential of young people and seeks to ensure that they have a full and exciting educational experience. Her aim is to encourage each pupil to try as many new experiences as possible because "you never know what you could be good at until you try".

Jan believes that a healthy mind and a healthy body go hand in hand and is pro-active in seeking a range of varied activities in which all pupils can engage. In both her headships, she has actively embraced P.E.S.S and 5x60 - interestingly both Risca and Greenhill achieved the 'Acitve Marc Cymru' Award.

Johanna Lloyd

Jo currently works for Barclaycard and has experience working on the management board for Barclays Partner Finance, a UK wide point of sale finance business based in Cardiff.

Born in Cardiff she attended Corpus Christi High School and then Millfield School, where she was Captain of Netball.  Jo went on to play netball for South Glamorgan and Somerset counties, West of England and Wales at various age groups.  She also played badminton for Wales at group level.

Jo attended Nottingham University where she obtained and LLB (Hons) degree in English law and American law, spending a year studying at the University of Texas in Austin.  Whilst at Nottingham, she was a member of the First VII netball team for 3 years.  She holds a Diploma in Legal Practice from Nottingham Trent Law School and is a qualified solicitor.

Prior to joining Barclaycard, Jo worked as a lawyer for Clifford Chance LLP, in London and New York, and Deutsche Bank AG, in London.  Jo now lives in Cardiff with her husband Tom and enjoys playing in the netball league at Sophia Gardens on a Thursday night.

Peter King

Peter is Executive Director of British Cycling, having been Chief Executive from February 1997 until December 2008 during which time the organisation moved from the brink of insolvency, to being one of the most vibrant and successful governing bodies of sport in the UK.

Peter is qualified as a Fellow in both the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.  He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and a Global Management Accountant.  As well as being in practice as a Chartered Secretary and Accountant, Peter manages a company which he founded in 1978 specifically aimed at introducing high standards of corporate governance and reliable management accounting functions to small and medium sized businesses.  He has a permanent place on the Board of the European Regions Airline Association, and is primarily responsible for their financial affairs.

Apart from Cycling, Peter has competed at local, regional and national level in sports as diverse as Athletics, Table Tennis, Football, Golf, Squash, Badminton and Cricket and he has been involved as a volunteer official, coach or administrator in almost all of these sports.  He still competes occasionally in cycling competitions.

Peter was a Board Member of Cycling England until its demise in April 2011.  He is a Director of Commonwealth Games England, The Sport and Recreation Alliance and Sport and Recreation Ventures Limited.  He was recently appointed to the Board of England Athletics as Vice Chair and Chair Elect. He holds no other Ministerial public appointments.

Peter was made a CBE in 2008 in recognition of his services to cycling having previously been awarded one of the sport's highest accolades, The Bidlake Trophy, in 2007.  He was inducted into cycling's Hall of Fame in 2010.

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