Bethan Guilfoyle

Appointment: 1 April 2010 to 31 March 2013

From 1996 to 2011, Bethan was headteacher of Treorchy Comprehensive School situated at the top of Rhondda Fawr Valley, a school of 1,560 students including 325 students in the sixth form.

She is a member of the Ministerial Advisory Group for the Department for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills and a governor of the University of Glamorgan since 2001. She has also been the Chair of the Student Affairs Committee of the Governing Body for the last four years.

In January 2010 she was awarded a CBE for services to education in the New Year Honours List.