Cadw Board
Meet our board and find out how their expertise is supporting Cadw to deliver its mission to protect our historic places.
The board currently comprises:
- Gwilym Hughes – Deputy Director and Head of Cadw
- Peter Wakelin – Acting Chair and non-executive member
- Liz Girling – non-executive member
- Steven Foulston – non-executive member
- Gaynor Legall – non-executive member
- Tracy Dicataldo – staff representative
Peter Wakelin
Dr Peter Wakelin is an independent consultant and curator who writes on the heritage and art of Wales.
After working for Cadw in the 1990s as its first specialist in industrial heritage, he was appointed Secretary/Chief Executive of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, then Director of Collections at Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales. He co-wrote the successful nominations for Blaenavon and Pontcysyllte aqueduct to become World Heritage sites and subsequently wrote the official guidebooks.
Liz Girling
Liz Girling is Head of Inclusion and Belonging for National Trust, covering Wales, Northern Ireland and England.
She was previously Assistant Director for the Trust in Wales for four years, leading a team of internal experts ensuring consistency and quality spanning all visitor facing areas: membership, volunteering, participation, fundraising, marketing, external affairs, commercial, visitor experience and curatorship.
Steven Foulston
Steven Foulston works in a senior Human Resources role at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Prior to joining the Royal Opera in 2005, he worked in various HR positions at a number of steelworks sites across south Wales.
With a history degree from the London School of Economics, Steven has a particularly keen interest in the Roman and medieval periods. Steven splits his time between London and his home in Caerleon.
Gaynor Legall
Gaynor has managed to combine fulltime work, political activism, voluntary sector involvement, with raising a family.
She has been involved in several television and radio programmes relating to inequalities and was awarded a Lifetime Achievement by the Ethnic Minority Welsh Women Achievement Association. Gaynor has now retired from full-time employments and is the chair of The Heritage & Cultural Exchange, a community-based heritage & history organisation. Gaynor is an honorary vice chair of LLafur. She led the task and finish group established by the Welsh Government to undertake an audit of public monuments, street and building names associated with aspects of Wales’ Black history.
