Morgan Parry, Chair
Council Chairman
Morgan Parry was appointed Chair of the Countryside Council for
Wales in March 2010.
He is a member of the Climate Change Commission for Wales. Until
his appointment to CCW he was Chair of Cynnal Cymru - the
Sustainable Development Forum for Wales, and a writer and lecturer
on sustainability.
He established the Wales office of WWF in 2000 and led the
organisation there until May 2009. Previously he was Director of
the North Wales Wildlife Trust, and for 10 years managed country
parks, nature reserves and visitor attractions for Gwynedd County
Council. He graduated in Applied Biology, and studied Countryside
Management at Bangor University.
He lives with his wife and two children on a smallholding near
Caernarfon.
Morgan was a Board Member of Friends of the Earth from 1986-89,
and a member of the Environment Agency’s North Wales Area Committee
1998-2000. He has served on a number of Welsh Government advisory
committees and working groups. He is a regular contributor to TV
and radio programmes on the environment.
June 2011