British Council Wales has introduced the appointment of Ruth Cocks as its new Director. Ruth will lead world training and humanities programmes and can maintain and develop the British Council’s present community of relationships throughout Wales.
She’s going to assist engagement round tradition, training, and sporting diplomacy with a community of over 100 worldwide workplaces, taking one of the best of Wales to the world and vice versa.
Ruth will be part of the staff in Cardiff. shifting from Cairo the place she has been Deputy Nation Director for the previous two-and-a-half years. In Egypt, Ruth led the British Council’s work throughout the Arts, English and Training, and had a selected deal with local weather change, heading-up work for COP27 final 12 months in Sharm el Sheikh.
New Director for British Council Wales, Ruth Cocks
Ruth is happy to return residence to Wales and says concerning the new position:
“I’m completely thrilled to go up the British Council in Wales and be part of such an amazing staff. I’ve been with the British Council for 19 years and have travelled the world, learnt languages, and made world connections. Throughout my time abroad, I haven’t stopped championing Wales internationally, showcasing Welsh language, sports activities, training, and tradition. I wish to proceed to lift the profile of Wales on a worldwide scale”.
Ruth provides about alternatives arising:
“In addition to our good and well-established arts programme in Wales, we’re excited to be launching new tasks to assist internationalisation for greater and additional training and colleges work in Wales.
Extra broadly, I’ll have a look at how we construct world alternatives across the cultural property of Wales equivalent to sports activities diplomacy, Wales’s management in local weather, languages, and the Nicely-being of Future Generations Act. The British Council will proceed to assist the Welsh Authorities in its worldwide ambitions with a selected focus this 12 months on the Wales in France 12 months which has simply launched.
“As a younger lady rising up in Wales, I had entry to worldwide alternatives which opened so many doorways and broadened my perspective. The British Council gives precisely these sort of alternatives, whether or not or not it’s via studying languages, worldwide partnerships, or offering the platform for Wales to glitter at huge world occasions”.
Ruth brings along with her a wealth of worldwide expertise in precedence international locations for Wales, having led coverage and training work in Europe and the MENA area and enterprise growth in South Asia. In East Asia and Afghanistan, Ruth arrange programmes for the Ministry of Defence, FCDO and EU, working most notably with Myanmar, Vietnam, China, Philippines, and Indonesia.
Welcoming Ruth into the Director position, Rob Humphreys, Chair of the British Council Wales advisory committee, and Chair, Greater Training Funding Council for Wales stated:
“We’re delighted to welcome Ruth into this vital position. Ruth has longstanding connections with Wales and has a fame for delivering work internationally that creates lasting worth for these elements of the world she has labored in. I’ve little question she is going to take ahead the work of the British Council, working alongside its many companions and the Welsh Authorities, and can make a really important contribution to the internationalisation of training and humanities in Wales within the coming years.”
