Jacques Rudolph has succeeded Mark Wallace as Glamorgan captain in all formats for next season.
Rudolph, who spoke exclusively to ecb.co.uk in September, was the Welsh county's overseas player this year, when he shone in the limited-overs competitions, and will be until the end of the 2017 campaign.
The 33-year-old former South Africa batsman has reasonable leadership experience, having skippered South Africa A and Yorkshire on occasions as well as other captaincy in his homeland.
Rudolph scored almost 2,000 runs for Glamorgan in 2014, including 575 at 82.14 in the Royal London One-Day Cup to make him the competition's leading scorer and the county's List A player of the year.
Glamorgan chief executive and director of cricket Hugh Morris said: "A leader on and off the field as well as being a genuinely likeable person, Jacques brings a wealth of experience to the role having been appointed captain of the Titans in 2010/11, as well as leading the South Africa A team and deputising in county cricket for Andrew Gale during his time with Yorkshire.
"He leads from the front and has shown throughout his career, and in his first season at Glamorgan, that he is a true professional and role model for younger players.
"Mark Wallace has done a fine job as club captain during the course of the past three years, demonstrating tremendous dedication and commitment to the role and he will continue to be a valued and experienced voice in the dressing room and on the field within a leadership capacity."
Rudolph, hoping to improve on a LV= County Championship Division Two position of eighth and batting average of 31.74 this year, said: "I'm very honoured and privileged to accept the invitation to lead Glamorgan. I thoroughly enjoyed my first season in Wales, but next year is a new challenge and following a number of changes I'm really looking forward to some exciting times ahead.
Honored and privileged to lead @GlamCricket in the 2015 season. Blessed with a great group of people. Looking forward to the challenge.
— Jacques Rudolph (@Jacques_Rudolph) December 18, 2014
"There were some encouraging signs last summer, especially as we came within one run of reaching Twenty20 finals day, but I've always set myself very high standards and I want to rectify a few things from 2014, especially in four-day cricket, as I feel we are a better team than what our final league position suggests.
"During the closing half of the summer we saw some good young talents emerge in batsman Aneurin Donald, plus spinners Kieran Bull and Andrew Salter.
"We must be patient with young players, but by helping to oversee their development, plus with the addition of our new recruits alongside a strong senior group already in our dressing room, Glamorgan can be a force in both four-day and one-day cricket.
"I'm really looking forward to returning to Glamorgan to create a winning team of which Wales can be proud.”