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Joe Allen is the Welsh Policy Officer for Leonard Cheshire Disability. Prior to that he was Research Manager for a public affairs company. |
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Matthew Aplin is a former journalist who is now the Assembly Labour Group’s Communications Officer. For his sins he is a Cardiff City supporter with a fascination for brightly-coloured Adidas trainers. |
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Rachel Banner is a spokesperson for True Wales. She was educated at West Monmouth Comprehensive School, Queen Mary College, University of London, Jesus College, Oxford and Cardiff University, and currently works as a teacher. She is a longstanding member of the Labour Party. |
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Mark Barry grew up in Cardiff. He graduated in Physics from Manchester University in 1985, before working in London and overseas in IT/Software and then management consultancy for the PA Consulting Group. In 2003 and after a short stay at the WDA, he founded Q Chip Ltd in Cardiff. In 2009, he founded Reagent Delivery Systems, a company focused on the opportunities presented by Point of Care Diagnostics. In 2007 he was part of the Gibson Review of Publically Funded Commercialisation Activities in Wales. Mark also has his own consultancy for new technology companies, including business strategy, planning, operations and fund raising. He also contributes policy suggestions and advice to public and private bodies on economic and transport matters. |
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Peter Black AM was elected to the Assembly in 1999 and was subsequently re-elected in 2003 and 2007. He is a former Chair of the Welsh Liberal Democrats and his policy interests include housing, local government and tackling substance misuse. Peter is a member of the Health, Wellbeing and Local Government Committee and Legislation Committee No.3. He is a member of the Assembly Commission, where he has responsibility for ICT and promoting the Assembly. He is also his party’s Business Manager and serves on the Business Committee. Peter is the Welsh Liberal Democrat Shadow Minister for Health, Housing and Local Government. |
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Nick Bourne AM was first elected to the Assembly in 1999, and was re-elected in 2003 and 2007. He has been leader of the Welsh Conservatives since August 1999, and Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly since July 2007. His political interests include the economy, foreign affairs, health and education. Nick sits on the Assembly’s European and External Affairs Committee and is the party’s spokesman on constitutional matters. |
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Keith Bowen is Manager of Contact a Family Wales, a charity providing support and information for families with disabled children. Keith is a registered social worker and has a Masters degree in disability and social policy having studied at Liverpool and Bristol Universities. He has a background in child disability social work, adult learning disability services, community drug agencies and homeless accomodation. He has been closely involved in a number of key policy developments in Wales including the Children’s National Service Framework as well as playing an active role in the Disabled Children Matter Wales campaign. He was previously a leading member of the Homes Fit For Children campaign. |
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Paul Bradshaw is described by UK Press Gazette as one of the country’s “most influential journalism bloggers” and by the Telegraph “The UK’s Jeff Jarvis”. A Reader in Online Journalism at Birmingham City University, where he teaches an MA in Online Journalism, Paul is a former magazine editor and website manager, and contributor to a number of books about journalism and the internet. He launched the Online Journalism Blog in 2004 and his ‘Model for the 21st Century Newsroom’ and ‘BASIC Principles of Online Journalism’ series have formed the basis for newsroom operations and journalism education around the world. In 2008 Paul was ranked the UK’s 4th ‘most visible person on the internet’ by NowPublic. In 2009 he launched HelpMeInvestigate.com, a platform for crowdsourcing investigative journalism. You can find him on Twitter @paulbradshaw. |
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Dan Bridge is a start-up junkie from Cardiff who has worked as far afield as Cambridge, London, San Francisco and Cardigan Bay, as well as with Reuters. He is a prototyping specialist for the development of web-based applications and has most recently completed an online product aimed at start-ups. His latest venture is a mobile game development company called Collision Games and he is attempting to document the entire process with New Statesmen journalist and Director of Nottingham’s GameCity, Iain Simons. |
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Dr Gillian Bristow is Reader in Economic Geography and Deputy Head of School at the school of City and Regional Planning, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies (CASS), both at Cardiff University. She holds a BA (Hons) First Class in Economics and a PhD, both from Cardiff University. She is a member of the Centre for Local and Regional Government Research and her research interests include regional economic development, devolution finance, fiscal federalism and the territorial distribution of public expenditure, regional economic change and restructuring, and the evaluation and analysis of UK and EU public policy in relation to regional and rural development objectives. |
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John Bufton MEP was elected to the European Parliament in 2009 as UKIP’s first ever MEP in Wales. He had previously sought election to the National Assembly and Parliament. He was born in 1962 in Llanidloes, Powys and joined the family Haulage Business before embarking on a career within the Health and Social Care Sector, managing a Residential Care Home for the Elderly with the Local Authority. He previously served as a member of Rhayader Town Council and Powys County Council. His interests and hobbies are rugby, walking, swimming, music and politics. |
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