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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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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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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 leading UK charity providing support, advice and information for families with disabled children, no matter what their condition or disability. The UK organisation celebrates its 30th anniversary this year and the Wales office has been running for ten years. 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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Katie Chappelle is the digital media manager at Warwick Emanuel PR & Film in Cardiff. She is a former broadcast journalist and worked for various radio stations in Wales and London before moving into PR. Katie heads up Warwick Emanuel’s Digital Media department, which produces films and podcasts for clients. She regularly uses social networking and blogs for PR opportunities and tries not to spend too much time Tweeting. She regularly contributes to her firm’s blog at www.wepr.co.uk/blog. |
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Nick Clegg is the Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hallam and, since December 2007, leader of the Liberal Democrats. He was appointed to the Privy Council in 2008 and a former Lib Dem MEP for East Midlands. |
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Dave Collins has been a Labour Party activist since 1991. Dave worked in the Welsh Assembly between 1999 and 2007. He is currently employed in London, but continues to maintain a home in Cardiff and stay in touch with Welsh current affairs |
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Barry Curtis holds a Masters degree in Philosophy from the University of Sussex where he also ran the Free Speech Society. He has worked as a political analyst as well as a Senior Vegetable Manager at a supermarket. Living in Essex, Barry Curtis is now a freelance journalist who blogs on a wide range of political topics for Independent Minds. |
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Wayne David MP was elected for the Caerphilly constituency in June 2001. In October 2008 he was appointed as the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Wales Office. Between June 2007 and his appointment he was a Government Whip for the Department for Work and Pensions and the Wales Office. Before being elected to Westminster, Wayne worked for the Youth Service in Caerphilly and had special responsibility for supporting voluntary youth organisations like the YMCA. For 10 years he was a Member of the European Parliament for South Wales and was Leader of the Labour Group. He also played a key role in securing Objective 1 funding for West Wales and the Valleys. |
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Alan Davies is a London-born fluent Welsh-speaking Welshman who moved to Cardiff in 1992 at the end of an Army career of 18 years. Passionate about Wales, he has had an active career as an impact player in start-up businesses and major change programmes. He now runs a niche Public Affairs consultancy and a number of online ventures. He describes himself as Welsh (a fact) Wise (count the grey hairs) and Wonderful (his Mum said so!) and uses his blog to comment on rugby, military matters and moaning about the state of the nation. |
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Alun Davies AM was elected to the Assembly in May 2007. Alun has also enjoyed a successful career in public and corporate affairs. Since being elected to the National Assembly Alun has quickly established himself; he has been appointed Chair of the Rural Development sub Committee and was chair of the Broadcasting Committee. He is also a member of the Finance Committee, Subordinate Legislation Committee, Legislation Committee No. 5 and the Sustainability Committee. He has gained a reputation for public speaking and campaigning on local and national issues, from the availability of broadband and access to public transport, to poverty, deprivation and the improvement of public services. |
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Iestyn T Davies is currently researching political communications and devolution in the JOMEC Department of Cardiff University. He is a graduate in Welsh and Philosophy and studied under both Hywel Teifi Edwards and Dewi Z Phillips at Swansea University. He is currently a freelance political and communications consultant and has worked for some of Wales’ leading organisations since the arrival of devolution and also in Westminster, Brussels and the UN. He recently cycled from London to Copenhagen in time for the COP15 climate change summit. |
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Kate Davies is Senior Political Researcher with YouGov and originates from Cardiff. In the past she has worked at the Commission for Racial Equality and for an NGO in the Palestinian West Bank. Since joining YouGov, Kate regularly implements high-profile research projects for print and broadcast media clients, including the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph and Channel 4 News. She has also been responsible for large-scale social studies for think tanks, public sector clients and academic institutions. Most recently, her research has formed the basis of a Channel 4 Dispatches series. Kate read politics at the University of London where she focussed predominantly on comparative social policy as well as the social and political histories of the Middle East and South Asia. |
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Mat Davies is a Welsh ex-pat. Tredegar-born, Blackwood-bred, Mat has enjoyed life in Swansea and Cardiff but now lives and works in London as a senior HR manager. He twitters regularly and has an occasional, rambling blog called The Elephant in the Room. Mat is interested in politics, current affairs and sport and has a (probably unhealthy) detailed knowledge of heavy metal bands. |
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John Dixon is Plaid’s National Chair and candidate in Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire. He spent most of his career in IT, ending up as a senior manager in a multi-national consultancy company. Following redundancy in 2003, he now works mostly as a freelance translator with occasional IT or management consultancy work, and returned to the political front line as a candidate in 2005 after an absence of some years. |
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Rhodri ap Dyfrig arrived in Aberystwyth from Dolgellau, via Cardiff and Sydney, and works for the Boomerang+ media group and the Department of Theatre, Film and Television at Aberystwyth University, developing the partnership set up between the two organizations in 2008. He is the co-founder of the Welsh language web and technology blog Metastwnsh, along with Pictiwrs, a Wales-wide project aimed at supporting and promoting Welsh short film talent through the web, DVDs and alternative film screenings. |
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