Dr Carol Bell

Carol Bell, originally from Felindre, Swansea, is an experienced industrialist, financier and charity trustee.

She is a board member of the Development Bank of Wales, council member of Research England, Vice President of National Museum Wales, Vice Chair of the Wales Millennium Centre and the first female board member of the Football Association of Wales. Carol currently serves on three public company boards: Bonheur (Norwegian renewable energy), Tharisa (platinum miner in South Africa) and the BlackRock Energy and Resources Income Trust. 

In 2019, she was one of the founders of Chapter Zero, part of the World Economic Forum’s Climate Governance Initiative, which helps non-executive directors to integrate climate risk into strategy and investment plans. Her academic interests, based at UCL, include the development of metal smelting and trade in metals in prehistory.  She chairs the British School at Athens and is Treasurer of the Institute for Archaeo-metallurgical Studies. She lives in London and Cardiff.