Council Members
Chair - Philip Carling
Philip Carling took up the post of Sports Council for Wales Chair on 1st February 2004. He is a former Chief Executive of Nottinghamshire and Glamorgan County Cricket Clubs and was a member of the Test and County Cricket Board between 1978-1990. He gained Blues for Cricket and Hockey at Cambridge and remains a keen golfer and squash player.
He is a member of the Board of UK Sport, Chairman of the Remuneration Committee of UK Sport and a member of the Major Events Panel.
He is a very experienced business consultant who has worked successfully with a number of organisations from the public, private and voluntary sectors on major projects and sponsorship/marketing campaigns, including the Rugby World Cup 1999, the Noah’s Ark Appeal and Mencap in Wales. He lives in Cardiff.
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Vice Chair - Laura McAllister
Proffessor Laura McAllister is from Bridgend and currently lives in Liverpool, where she is Professor of Governance at the University of Liverpool’s School of Management. Her principal areas of research are public administration and politics and she has published extensively in these areas.
Laura is also a political analyst and commentator for BBC Wales, a former Welsh football international and national team captain with 24 caps, Board Member of UK Sport from 2002-2005 and is currently a Board Member and Trustee of the Football Association of Wales Trust and Chair of Sport Liverpool at the University of Liverpool.
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Council Member - Hywel Meredydd
The Reverend Hywel Meredydd lives in Llangefni, where he has been Minister at Cildwrn Chapel for the past 25 years. He is the Deputy Chair of Anglesey Local Health Board where he chairs its Audit Committee and is a member of the Human Resources Committee and the Health, Social Care & Wellbeing Partnership Board.
He has been active in his area of Anglesey as Leader of Cefni Bike Club, Governor of Ysgol Corn Hir, Leader of the Llangefni Urdd Club (Aelwyd), Chairman of the Llangefni Partnership, Chairman of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales and a member of Anglesey’s Objective 1, Economic Development Partnership.
He is the Chairman of Menter Môn (Anglesey Enterprise Board) and is also the Chairman of the relief and development charity, Tearfund in Wales. On behalf of Gweini he is a board member of the WCVA.
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Council Member - Richard Palmer 
Mr Richard Palmer CBE is from Llangwm, Pembrokeshire and is Executive Vice President of the British Olympic Association and a Director of the British Olympic Foundation. He currently lectures on MEMOS, a European Masters Degree programme in Sports Management. He is a board director of Sports Coach UK and Chairman of their Corporate Governance and Risk management Committee.
Richard Palmer has an extensive background in sports management, including Secretary General of the British Olympic Association, a position he held for 20 years until his retirement in 1997. He was Chef de Mission for the Winter and Summer Olympic Games of 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992 and 1996.
In addition, he was Chef de Mission of England’s Commonwealth Games Teams in 1972, 1982 and 1986. He was President of the Association of National Olympic Committees’ (ANOC) Commission for the Olympic Games and served on the ANOC Executive Board for 3 (4 yearly) terms.
He was Vice President of the European Olympic Committee and remains an Honorary Vice President of the EOC. He was also a Member of the IOC’s Marketing Commission and serviced on the IOC’s Co-ordination Commission for the Games of Atlanta, Sydney and Athens and is co-author of the IOC Olympic Village Guide.
He was also Technical Director of the London 2012 Olympic Bid and an advisor to the Commonwealth Games Federation for the Games of Kuala Lumpur, Manchester and Melbourne.
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Council Member - Adele Baumgardt
Adele Baumgardt is from London and currently lives in Bristol. She works in Cardiff as Director of Policy and Partnership at the Equal Opportunities Commission in Wales. She works extensively with employers in Wales and manages the provision of advice on equality to employers in all sectors.
Adele also leads the EOC work in Wales on the new Gender Equality Duty and the requirements it places on public bodies in Wales. Under this banner she has worked specifically on issues surrounding increasing participation in sport and physical activity for under-represented groups, in particular women and girls.
Adele's key area of professional interest is gender mainstreaming and in particular the gender budgeting tool of gender mainstreaming. In 2006 she gained an MSc in Equality and Diversity form the University of Cardiff. She chairs the Gender Budget Group for Wales, and co-chairs the Women's Budget Group UK.
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Council Member - Robert Harris
Cllr Robert Harris lives and works in Lampeter, where he is proprietor of a music and film shop and is a qualified social worker. He has represented Lampeter on Dyfed and later Ceredigion County Council since 1981 and is a member of Lampeter Town Council.
Hag Harris has extensive experience in local government and he is presently Cabinet Member for Department of Environmental Services and Housing, Ceredigion County Council, Chair of Ceredigion Health Alliance, Health Challenge Wales, Ceredigion Champion, Member of Ceredigion Health Board, Chair of Ceredigion Homelessness Forum Chair of Dyfed Powys Courts Board and a member of Lampeter Swimming Pool Management Committee. He was previously Mayor of Lampeter Town Council and Chair of Ceredigion Sports Council.
Robert Harris was Welsh National Orienteering Coach and Senior Champion, representing Wales and was also a Football referee with 15 years experience including the Football League of Wales.
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Council Member - David Lloyd Roberts
David Lloyd Roberts is a partner in Huw James law firm in Cardiff. Born in Bangor, he was educated in Wrexham and at Cambridge University. Welsh sprint champion on nine occasions, he represented Britain at 100 metres and 4 x 100 metre relay between 1974 and 1978 at the European Championships and also represented Wales at the Commonwealth Games.
He is a member of Cambridge University’s Hawks Club and Royal Porthcawl Golf Club. Mr Roberts holds no other Ministerial public appointments.
Council Member - Dr Wynford Morgan Leyshon
Dr Wynford Leyshon represented Wales at athletics in the 1974 Commonwealth Games in New Zealand and also represented Great Britain. At the World Student Games in Moscow in 1973, he gained a silver medal in the 4x400m relay. 
He is a high-performance level 4 athletics coach and has coached a number of 400m hurdlers who have gained Welsh, UK and European titles. Educated at Cardiff University, he is a former Vice Principal of Neath Port Talbot College. He has been Chairman of the Welsh School Athletics Association and the Schools International Athletics Board.
In 2007 he received a meritorious award for services to Welsh Athletics and is a member of Swansea Harriers Athletics Club and Mawr Walking Club (based at Felindre Swansea). During 2008 he was awarded the Chancellor's Medal from the University of Glamorgan for 'Services to the Community and People of Wales re the development of Higher Education provision in Neath Port Talbot'.
Dr Leyshon holds no other Ministerial public appointments.
Council Member - Martin Warren
Martin Warren was born and brought up in Cardiff and, whilst at Cardiff High School, represented Wales at cricket, going on to play for Cardiff Cricket club for 12 years. Educated at Hull University, he represented the university at both football and cricket.
He returned home to Cardiff and joined Deloitte, Haskins & Sells (now PWC), where he qualified as a chartered accountant, and became a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in 1989. Martin is currently the Director of Finance at UWIC.
For 5 years, Martin was chairman of UWIC Inter Cardiff, engineering the merger of the two clubs into the League of Wales. He is currently Chairman of Cardiff & Vale Young Enterprise and a member of the Wales Young Enterprise Board. Mr Warren holds no other Ministerial public appointments.
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Council Member - Stella Mair Thomas
Stella Mair Thomas is a freelance Communications/Media Consultant with experience at Board level in the public and private sectors, mostly in Wales. She has held senior posts in the fields of: tourism, marketing, press and public relations, corporate governance, television regulation and consumer representation. 
A Welsh-speaker, Mrs Thomas started her career as a PE and Geography teacher in Breconshire and specialised in teaching young people to swim. She is particularly interested in the Sports Council for Wales’ challenge of delivering the targets for activity for all age groups, as set out in the Welsh Assembly Government’s Climbing Higher strategy.
Mrs Thomas is also a non-executive Director of the Millennium Stadium and the representative for Wales on the Board of Passenger Focus, the consumer body for rail passengers in Great Britain. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
