Sir Deian Rhys Hopkin (born 1 March 1944) is an academic and historian, former vice chancellor and former President of the National Library of Wales.
Born and educated in Llanelli, Deian Hopkin attended the first Welsh-medium school to be established by a local authority, followed by a scholarship to Llandovery College.
Hopkin has been actively involved in educational policy and, in particular, the skills agenda of the UK over a number of years.
[8] He is a trustee of the Council for At-Risk Academics (formerly CARA) of which he was vice-chairman and was until 2009 Chairman of the UNIAID Foundation, the national charity supporting students in financial difficulty which has now merged with the Brightside Trust.
[11] He was a trustee of the Institute of Historical Research Development Trust, University of London, and was a member of the editorial advisory board of Times Higher Education.
[17] In 2017 he was a founding partner of executive search company, Anderson Quigley, and since 2020 a Principal Advisor at Wells Advisory of Melbourne.