Honorary Awards 2022

Andrew White

Director of the National Lottery Heritage Fund in Wales

Andrew is Director of The National Lottery Heritage Fund in Wales. He joined in 2020 after a decade as Director of Stonewall Cymru and prior to that as Head of Health and Voluntary Sector at the Welsh Language Board.

He has served on the Third Sector Partnership Council, End Youth Homelessness Cymru, and the steering group of the British Institute of Human Rights’ UN Periodic Review. He is a member of the Gorsedd of Bards, the Welsh Language Partnership Council and is a Community Editor at LGBTQymru magazine. During the pandemic Andrew learnt how to sew and now owns too many shirts.

Professor Keshav Singhal MBE

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Cwn Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

Professor Keshav Singhal is a Senior Orthopaedic Consultant at Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board specialising in hip and knee replacement surgery.

He is the Chair of the Covid-19 Risk Assessment group, which led to the development of the All-Wales Covid-19 Risk Assessment tool for the NHS and other public bodies in Wales. In 2020, he was elected to the Learned Society of Wales’s Fellowship.

He sits on the Lord Chancellor’s South Wales Advisory committee, and in 2021 was made the first Honorary Consul of the Republic of Poland with jurisdiction for Wales. He is on the steering board of the Anti-Racist Wales action plan of the Welsh Government contributing to the Government’s Equality strategy. He Chairs the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO) in Wales and also sits on the National Executive of BAPI.

Professor Patricia Wiltshire

Ecologist, Botanist, and Palynologist

Professor Patricia Wiltshire is a forensic ecologist with special expertise in ecology, botany, and soil science. Patricia has had a 40-year research and teaching career at King's College and University College London. She has also been an honorary research fellow at the University of Aberdeen, and Research Associate at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

She has devoted herself to developing and establishing the disciplines of forensic ecology, botany, and palynology; and, more recently, forensic mycology. Patricia has worked on more than 300 criminal cases, undertaking forensic investigative work for every police force in the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, and the Netherlands, and is an experienced expert witness.