Angela Elniff-Larsen is co- director of her own research and development consultancy. By profession an economist, she is an experienced strategic development professional; her key skill lies in her ability to work at all levels of regeneration from community to strategic. She has an ongoing interest in childcare development and its economic and social impact for women and other excluded groups. She is a frequent speaker at conferences in the UK and Europe and writes articles regularly for various regeneration publications. She is Vice Chair of the Bevan Foundation and Chair of the new WI in Merthyr –Celtic Babes. Married to a Dane with four children, she still finds time to follow a passion for Welsh history.

Nice girls don’t do it

We know that women are often paid less than men for the same work. But are women themselves at least partly responsible for this situation?

Poverty is a growth industry

We have a segmented poverty market in Wales. To serve that market we have a growth industry. But the only real solution to poverty is to focus on prosperity