Heather Stevens (philanthropist)

Dame Heather Vivienne Stevens (née Naylor; born ) is a Welsh businesswoman and philanthropist. She is Pro-Chancellor of Cardiff University, as well as an Honorary Visiting professor in the College of Biomedical and Life Sciences. and Chair of The Waterloo Foundation (founded 2007 ), which has given £165 million to causes in Wales. Since 2014 Heather Stevens has been a trustee of the Ocean Watersports Trust, a charity based in the Vale of Glamorgan and she is also a leading supporter of causes connected with protecting the oceans, such as Oceana.

She graduated in psychology from Wadham College, Oxford. She married David Stevens in 1994. With Stevens and Henry Engelhardt, she co-founded Admiral Insurance, forerunner of the Admiral Group of financial companies, one of Wales's biggest employers, in 1992. She was High Sheriff of South Glamorgan in 2015.