Elan Closs Stephens
Acting Chairwoman, BBC from 27 June 2023 | |
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Dame Elan Closs Stephens Pro-Chancellor of Aberystwyth University. She also chairs the UNESCO International Prize for the Creative Economy panel.[4]
Life and career
Born at Talysarn in the Nantlle Valley, Gwynedd, to William Jones Roberts and Mair née Closs, she was educated at Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle before going up to read English at Somerville College, Oxford.[5]
Pro-Chancellor of Aberystwyth University.[7]
Between 2009 and 2018, Stephens was a non-executive director of the Welsh Government's Strategic Delivery and Performance Board, chaired by the
Permanent Secretary. In 2017, she was appointed Chairwoman of the Public Leadership Forum,[8]
overseeing CEOs of 41 Welsh Government arm's-length public bodies.
In 1998,
National Film Theatre. Chairwoman of the Wales Advisory Committee to the British Council until 2011, she was a board member of the Film Agency for Wales and a Trustee of Arts & Business.[5]
Between 2001 and 2006, Stephens chaired
Welsh Assembly Government's Minister for Social Justice and Local Government to chair the Recovery Board for Isle of Anglesey County Council, having delivered, in 2006, the Stephens Report on the financing and structure of the Arts in Wales to the Welsh Assembly Government. A member of the Welsh Assembly Government's Strategic Delivery Performance Board, in October 2010 she was appointed to the BBC Trust and in 2017 reappointed as member for Wales on the new BBC Board.[5][10]
DBE insignia
Appointed a
DBE in the 2019 Birthday Honours.[11]
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and of the Institute of Welsh Affairs
.
Family
Married on 23 September 1972 to Roy Stephens, who died in 1989, she has two children.[5]
References
- ^ "Elan Closs Stephens appointed acting chair of BBC". BBC News. 2 June 2023. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
- ^ "Honorary Fellow Dame Elan Closs Stephens appointed Acting Chair of BBC Board". University of Oxford. 5 June 2023. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
- ^ "Our Commissioners: Elan Closs Stephens". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
- ^ "The UNESCO-Bangladesh Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman International Prize for the Creative Economy". UNESCO. 24 May 2023. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
- ^ a b c d e "Elan Closs Stephens". Welsh Assembly Government. Archived from the original on 10 October 2012. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
- ^ "Elan Closs Stephens". Aberystwyth University. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
- ^ "Dame Elan Closs Stephens". Somerville College, Oxford. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
In January 2020, she was appointed Pro Chancellor of Aberystwyth University.
- ^ www.walesleadershipforum.org.uk
- ^ "Elan Closs Stephens". BBC Trust. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
- ^ "Who is Dame Elan Closs Stephens? The new acting chair of the BBC". 2 June 2023.
- ^ "No. 62666". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 June 2019. p. B8.
- ^ "No. 60087". The London Gazette. 15 March 2012. p. 5224.
- ^ Wales, The Learned Society of. "Elan Closs Stephens". The Learned Society of Wales. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
