Elwyn Tudno Jones OBE (Chair)
Elwyn was appointed Chair on 25 March 2003, having been a board member since December 1998. He attended Sir Hugh Owen Grammar School in Caernarfon before obtaining a BSc in Quantity Surveying from Leicester Polytechnic. Elwyn has been a FRICS (Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) since 1962. In 1962 he joined Symonds Group and remained there until his retirement in 1997, rising to senior partner for Wales in 1988, deputy chairman and main board director from 1993 to 1996 and business development director before his retirement. Elwyn was Chair of the University of Wales College Newport from 1992 to 2000. He has been a member of the Fields Committee for the Royal National Eisteddfod for Wales since 1981, a trustee of the Sir Geraint Evans Heart Research Institute since 1993, trustee of the National Botanic Garden for Wales since 1998, panel member of the National Museum and Gallery at Roman Legionary Museum since 2000 and a director of Script Cymru since 2000. Elwyn was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in June 2003.

 

Professor Richard Weston (Vice-Chair)
Architect, landscape designer and author, Richard is a Professor at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University. He was appointed to CBAT’s board in July 2001. An expert on Nordic architecture, his books include a Sir Banister Fletcher Prize-winning monograph on the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto and the first comprehensive account of the work of Jørn Utzon, architect of Sydney Opera House. He has won prizes in competitions for architecture, landscape and public art, and exhibited on several occasions at the Royal Academy of Art. Richard is Architectural Advisor to the National Botanic Garden of Wales, where he also serves on the Arts Committee. In 1994, as part of ‘FutureWorld’ at Milton Keynes (a housing exhibition of 30 properties), Richard, in conjunction with an engineer, designed the world’s first glass structured house where the roof is held up by the glass. He was going to live there but was posted to Cardiff.

 

Chris Jofeh
Chris was appointed to CBAT’s board in October 1999. He was born in Gloucestershire and is a structural/civil engineer. Chris joined Arup's Cardiff Bay office in 1991, after 3 years as structural principal in Arup's Los Angeles office, where he gained his qualification as a seismic engineer. In Cardiff he was the director responsible for the office obtaining its ISO 9001 accreditation. Chris is the author of the DETR/Institution of Structural Engineers design guide on the structural use of glass in buildings and is a member of the Institution of Structural Engineers' Formal Papers Panel. He leads multidisciplinary design teams and has been responsible for the engineering design of a wide range of major projects including, in Cardiff Bay, Mermaid Quay, the Oval Basin Redevelopment and the Wales Millennium Centre.

 

Mike Harvey
Mike joined CBAT’s board in January 2001. He is a chartered engineer by profession and spent most of his career in marketing and management at a large company. Mike became a Community Councillor in 1970 and a Vale Councillor in 1992, where he is now the Cabinet Member with responsibility for Economic Regeneration and Leisure activities. He has a particular ambition to achieve a high standard of regeneration environment in the many projects now being delivered in Barry and Penarth. During his time as a Community Councillor in Wenvoe, Mike worked to achieve increased provision of public open space and to enhance the restoration of the many former quarries in his community.

 

David Lermon
David was born and has lived in Cardiff for most of his life. He was appointed to CBAT’s board in September 2001. David obtained a law degree before qualifying as a chartered accountant. He has been a Finance Director for most of his working life, and is currently Wales Manager for the Institute of Chartered Accountants, based in Cardiff Bay. David co-founded and is chairman of the Architectural Heritage Society, based in Cardiff.

 

Sarah Cook
Sarah was CBAT’s Commissions Officer three days per week between April 1999 and September 2001, whilst also managing ATLAS Limited, her landscaping and tree surgery company. She left CBAT to take up the post of Communications Manager for Warwick HRI, the horticulture department of the University of Warwick, based at Wellesbourne near Stratford upon Avon. Sarah has gained extensive professional experience through her work in the horticulture, landscape and public art industries in both Australia and the UK. In 1998, Sarah completed an MBA at the University of Glamorgan, having previously gained a Horticulture Degree in Sydney, Australia. She was appointed to CBAT’s board in September 2002.

 

Tessa Jackson
Tessa was appointed to CBAT’s board in September 2003. In 2001 Tessa set up International Cultural Development and works as an independent consultant. ICD undertakes a range of work including international cultural policy advice, strategic planning and feasibility work across the arts, culture & heritage in Britain & internationally, including building developments and cultural tourism initiatives, curatorial projects, event management and writing. Concurrently she is Artistic Director and Chief Executive for the Artes Mundi Prize, a new international visual arts prize emanating from Wales.

An experienced museum and gallery curator, Tessa was head of the Visual Arts, Architecture and Film programme for Glasgow 1990 when it was European City of Culture. For over eight years she was Director of Arnolfini, Bristol and its international programme of contemporary arts and returned to Scotland to become Director of the Scottish Arts Council.

 

Christopher (Chris) O’Neil
Chris was appointed to CBAT’s board in September 2003. He attended Radyr Comprehensive School, Cardiff, before going on to study on the Cardiff School of Art & Design’s Foundation course. Chris graduated from Wimbledon School of Art & Design and then went on to the Royal College of Art, where he received a Henry Moore Scholarship for Sculpture.

Chris and his sculptor wife, Louisa Buck, were founder members of Tower Bridge studios. He has taught at the University of East London, Brighton University (where he was the Head of Sculpture at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design), he was the Head of Fine Art at Canterbury College of Art & Design, then he was made a Professor at the Savannah College of Art, Georgia USA. Chris returned to Wales in 2001, where he is now Head of School at Cardiff School of Art & Design, UWIC. Chris was appointed as a Member to the Arts Council of Wales in 2004 and is Chair of the Welsh Venice Biennale Committee.

Chris has work in both private and public collections, has curated, published and exhibited both sculpture and photography.

 

Professor Kathryn Moore
Kathryn was appointed to CBAT’s Board in November 2003. She attended Bridgend Girls Grammar School and Bryntirion Comprehensive School in Mid-Glamorgan before undertaking a foundation course in art and design at Brighton Polytechnic, followed by a degree in Geography and a post graduate degree in Landscape Architecture, both from Manchester University. After six years at Salford City Council she spent the following two years running what was at the time one of the largest public sector practices, before moving into higher education. Having designed and run a new undergraduate degree, she is course director of the postgraduate diploma in landscape architecture at the University of Central England in Birmingham. Kathryn has published extensively on design education and philosophy, and is currently writing a book about the art of design. President of the Landscape Institute, she is also a member of the board of the Landscape Foundation.

 

Alexandrina (Alex) Evans
Alex was born and has lived most of her life in Cardiff. She left school at 18 to study Hotel Management and Business Studies. Alex qualified and then got married and had two girls, shethen went on to study Needlework and Design at Oxford and taught needlework for 20 years. For the past five years following her retirement Alex served as a Community Councillor in Tongwynlais, and then in June 2004 she was elected as a County Councillor for Splott.  Alex has been an ardent campaigner against the closure of the Cardiff Royal Infirmary for several years. She is a school governor. Her interests are art, classical music and travel. Alex was appointed to CBAT’s Board in September 2004.

Elizabeth (Liz) Cory
Liz has lived in Cardiff all her life.  She was educated at Howell’s School, Llandaff and on leaving school, qualified as a Chartered Accountant, becoming a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants ion 1973.

She has worked for a number of organisations in Cardiff including Price Waterhouse, the Cardiff Bay Opera House Trust and most recently as Finance Director of fforwm, the Association of Further Education Colleges in Wales.  She retired in 2004 and was appointed to CBAT’s board in 2006.