Cerith Rhys Jones is a former Climate Change Champion for Wales and now one of two non-portfolio officers on the National Executive Committee of CymruX Young Plaid Cymru. A former student and deputy Head Boy at Ysgol Gyfun Ystalyfera in the Swansea Valley, he has also worked closely with Jonathan Edwards MP, Rhodri Glyn Thomas AM and Bethan Jenkins AM. He will begin University in 2011 with a view to reading Politics and Welsh. He can be contacted via www.about.me/cerithrhys.

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