New non-executive director


 

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RNS Number : 3627B 
Welsh Water Utilities Finance PLC 
26 October 2009 
 

News from Dwr Cymru Welsh Water 
 
 
 
 
26 October 2009 
 
 
 
 
The Board of Glas Cymru is pleased to announce that Professor Stephen Palmer, 
MA, MB, BCHir, FRCP, FFPH, Head of Profession for Epidemiology at the Health 
Protection Agency, has been appointed a non-executive director of Glas Cymru 
Cyfyngedig and Dwr Cymru Welsh Water with immediate effect. 
Professor Palmer has been a leading figure in public health in Wales for over 25 
years, including as Head of the Public Health Services Laboratory Communicable 
Disease Surveillance Centre in Wales. Currently he is a Member of the National 
Expert Panel on Emerging Infections, a Member of the National Institute of 
Health Research Public Health Programme Advisory Board and, as Professor of 
Epidemiology and Public Health at Cardiff University, the Programme Director for 
Public Health Medicine Training in Wales. 
Lord Burns, Chairman of Glas Cymru, said: 
"Welsh Water's most important responsibility is the supply of safe drinking 
water and protection of public health.  This appointment ensures that the Board 
continues to have the benefit of the highest possible expertise in this key 
area.  Stephen's professional experience in all matters to do with public health 
speaks for itself and we are delighted to welcome him onto the Board." 
 
 
Professor Palmer will be a member of the Quality and Environment Committee, the 
Remuneration Committee and Nomination Committee of the Board.  He will stand for 
election as a director at the 2010 Annual General Meeting. 
 
 
Enquiries to Dwr Cymru Welsh Water press office on 02920 556140. 
 
 
 
 
Notes for editors 
 
 
  1.  Two of Welsh Water's principal responsibilities are to provide a safe and 
  reliable drinking water supply to our customers, and to safely treat and return 
  customer's wastewater to the natural environment. This is why we say protecting 
  public health is our top priority. 
 
2.  Professor Palmer's CV 
 
 
Qualifications: MB, BChir (Cantab), MA (Cantab) FRCP, Fellow of the Faculty of 
Public Health and the Royal College of Physicians 
 
 
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| Current responsibilities                                                 | 
| Head of Profession for Epidemiology, Health Protection Agency (2009 - )  | 
| Mansel Talbot Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Cardiff       | 
| University (1998 - )                                                     | 
| Board member, National institute of Health research Public Health        | 
| Advisory Programme                                                       | 
| Member, Medical Research Council College of Experts                      | 
| Member, National Expert Panel on Emerging Infections                     | 
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| His former roles include                                                 | 
| 2006-2009Executive Director, Local and Regional Services, Health         | 
| Protection Agency                                                        | 
| 1998-2006    Head of Department, Epidemiology Statistics & Public        | 
| Health, Cardiff University                                               | 
| 1993-1998    Director, Welsh Combined Centres for Public Health, Cardiff | 
| University                                                               | 
| 1983-1998    Head of Public Health Laboratory Service   Communicable     | 
| Disease Surveillance Centre                                              | 
|                   (Wales)                                                | 
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3. Professor Palmer lives in Cardiff. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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