Jane Davidson
Pro-Vice-Chancellor Emeritus, University of Wales Trinity St David
Jane Davidson is Pro-Vice-Chancellor Emeritus at the University of Wales Trinity St David, and Chair of the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission’s Welsh Inquiry. She is former Welsh minister for environment and sustainability and is a Patron of the Chartered Institute of Ecologists and Environmental Managers.
Prior to her election to the Welsh Assembly Davidson was a member of Cardiff City Council. In the Assembly, she was minister for environment and sustainability in Wales from 2007 to 2011 where she was responsible for the Welsh Government agreeing to make sustainable development its central organising principle. Prior to that, she was minister for education and lifelong learning where she introduced a new foundation phase for 3- to 7-year-olds, the Welsh Baccalaureate and Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship (ESDGC) into the Welsh curriculum.
In 2011, she took up employment as director of the Wales Institute for Sustainability at the local Trinity St David University shortly afterwards, which intends to introduce sustainability content into every student's experience from 2013. In 2017, Jane was guest faculty in the Executive Education for Sustainability Leadership programme at Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health.