Dr Carol Bell FSA FLSW

An experienced industrialist and financier, Carol read Natural Sciences as an undergraduate at Cambridge, specialising in Biochemistry. She started her career in the oil and gas industry before moving into investment banking where she held senior positions at UBS, Credit Suisse First Boston, JP Morgan, where she was Head of European Equity Research, and Chase Manhattan Bank. Her PhD is in the archaeology of ancient trade and she continues multidisciplinary research on this subject. Carol is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales as well as an Honorary Fellow of Swansea University and the University of Wales Trinity St David.

During 2019, she joined with seven other corporate board directors in London to found Chapter Zero, a network based at Hughes Hall, Cambridge University to enable non-executive directors of companies to engage with climate risk and the delivery of net zero targets for carbon emissions. Chapter Zero now has at least one member on over 70% of FTSE 100 Boards. Chapter Zero in the UK has also supported the foundation of a global network of Chapters (under the World Economic Forum Climate Governance Initiative) whose membership currently exceeds 100,000 Board Directors.

https://chapterzero.org.uk

She currently serves on two public company boards: Bonheur ASA (Norwegian listed company in renewable energy generation and services) and Tharisa plc (London and Johannesburg listed Platinum mining company). Carol is also a Council Member of Research England and the Senior Independent Director of the National Physical Laboratory. Having recently retired from the board of the Development Bank of Wales (which invests in SMEs in Wales) she is the first female board member of the Football Association of Wales and Treasurer of Glamorgan County Cricket Club. She has also recently been appointed the Chair of Heneb, the Trust for Welsh Archaeology, which is the pan-Wales organisation resulting from uniting the four historic Archaeological Trusts of Wales.