Professor Medwin Hughes DL, DPhil, DPS, FRSA, FLSW Professor Medwin Hughes is the longest serving Vice-Chancellor in Wales and over the last 20 years has played a significant role in the reconfiguration of Higher Education in Wales. Professor Medwin Hughes, DL, is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD), a university created under Wales’s oldest university Royal Charter established in 1828. He is also the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales established by Royal Charter in 1893 as a national institution at the heart of Welsh education and cultural life. A graduate of Aberystwyth University and of Jesus College, Oxford, his primary area of scholarly interests lies in the study of education and inter-cultural dialogue. He has served as the Deputy Chair of the Welsh Language Board and on numerous advisory committees of the Welsh Government and the Council of Europe with regard to educational and cultural policy initiatives. The UWTSD Group is a confederation of several institutions including the University of Wales, as well as constituent colleges, Coleg Sir Gâr and Coleg Ceredigion. Professor Hughes is leading a number of major projects across the University’s campuses, including the redevelopment of the former docklands area in Swansea to create a neighbourhood where the University will co-locate and co-create with industry. The £500 million project will also provide economic and commercial benefits to the Swansea Bay City Region by attracting new companies, partnerships and investment. He was appointed as a Welsh Supernumerary Fellow of Jesus College Oxford and is also an Honorary Fellow of Harris Manchester College, Oxford University. He served as Her Majesty’s High Sheriff of Dyfed for 2016-17. He also serves as Her Majesty’s Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Dyfed, and is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and of the Royal Society of Arts.