David Sydney Rowe-Beddoe

Background

David Rowe-Beddoe is the son of Sydney Rowe-Beddoe and Dolan Evans.

Education

He also attended Street John"s College, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Career

Lord Rowe-Beddoe, the former chairman of the Welsh Development Agency, is chairman of Cardiff Airport. His education continued at Stowe School at Buckingham, Buckinghamshire in England. In 1964, Rowe-Beddoe married Malinda Collison, and the union produced three daughters.

The couple were divorced in 1982.

Rowe-Beddoe"s career in business began at Thomas De Louisiana Rue in 1961. And he rose to the position of Chief Executive from 1971 through 1976.

At Revlon, he was President, Latin America, Europe, Middle East and Africa from 1976 through 1981. He also served as President, Morgan Stanley-GFTA Limited from 1983 through 1991.

Rowe-Beddoe was known as a Monaco-based businessman and a Tory party fund-raiser when an opportunity arose for him to be appointed to a Welsh quango.

And that opportunity led to others Rowe-Beddoe was appointed chairman of the Welsh Development Agency (WDA) in July 1993. And the term of this appointment was nine years.

In 2001, Sir David Rowe-Beddoe was appointed the Chairman of the Wales Millennium Centre.

And he remains in this post today. In 2004, Sir David Rowe-Beddoe was appointed President of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama having previously been a Governor and Chairman of the Board.

In 2005, he received the Beacon Prize for Wales for his contribution to the economic and social development of Wales. On 15 June 2006, he was created a life peer as Baron Rowe-Beddoe, of Kilgetty in the County of Dyfed.

In April 2007, Lord Rowe-Beddoe was created Pro-Chancellor of the University of Glamorgan.

Lord Rowe-Beddoe holds the Deputy Chair post of the United Kingdom Statistics Authority with responsibility for the governance of the Office for National Statistics. Cardiff University, Honorary fellow, 1999.

Achievements

• Cardiff University, Honorary fellow, 1999. University of Wales, Honorary degree (DScEcon), 2004. Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, 2008. University of Glamorgan, Honorary Doctor University of Aberystwith, Honorary fellow UWIC, Honorary fellow UWCN, Honorary fellow Deputy Lieutenant, Gwent.