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DAVIES, GERAINT TALFAN

Geraint graduated from Oxford University in 1966 with a degree in Modern History. He spent over thirty years in the newspaper and broadcasting industries and was Controller of BBC Wales from 1990 to 2000, where he was responsible for all BBC broadcast and online operations in Wales. He is currently a non-executive director of Welsh Water company Glas Cymru Ltd, Chair of the Institute of Welsh Affairs, Chairman of Welsh National Opera and Cardiff Bay Arts Trust and a Governor of the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff.

Geraint was awarded an Honorary Doctorate at the University of Glamorgan in 1996, and Honorary Fellowships at the Royal Institute of British Architects and the University of Wales Institute Cardiff in 2000. He is married with three grown up sons and lives in Cardiff.

Selected Publications:
Darlledu: Gwasanaethu neu gystadlu? / Broadcasting: Public Service or Competition? (Darlith flynyddol BT a Chymdeithas y Cyfathrebwyr) (Y Coleg Normal, 1993)
Darlledu a’r celfyddydau yng Nghymru / Broadcasting and the Arts in Wales (Ben Bowen Thomas lecture) (Cymdeithas Gelfyddydau Gogledd Cymru, 1994)
The Capital, Culture and the Nation: National Eisteddfod Lecture St. David’s 2002 (I.W.A.National Eisteddfod Lectures) (Institute of Welsh Affairs, 2002)
At Arms Length (Seren, 2008)

Contributed to:
Designing Success: The Case for a Welsh Commission for Architecture and Design (editor) (Institute of Welsh Affairs, 2000)