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	Rev Aled Edwards is from Trawsfynydd, Gwynedd. and was educated at Blaenau Ffestiniog, Saint David’s University College, Lampeter and at Trinity College, Bristol. Aled served a number of parishes in north and south Wales. He currently serves Cytûn as its Chief Executive. He is Chair of Displaced People in Action and is a member of the Wales Committee of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission. He is a former member of Sir Emyr Jones Parry’s All Wales Convention; and is a member of the Gorsedd of Bards. In June 2006 Aled was awarded an OBE for his charitable services in Wales and in March 2010 he received the Welsh Assembly Government’s Recognising Achievement Award for services to community relations in Wales.
	Jonathan Edwards is the Member of Parliament for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, first elected on May 6th 2010. He is a former strategic adviser to Plaid Cymru and was for a time the Public Affairs Officer for Citizens Advice Cymru. His political interests include social justice and foreign affairs.
	Haf Elgar is Campaigner for Friends of the Earth Cymru and Chair of the Stop Climate Chaos Cymru coalition. She has previously worked in the European Parliament and Edinburgh University.
	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.
	Chris Enness joined the Fire and Rescue Service in1987 and has served in Essex, North Wales and is currently the Deputy Chief Fire Officer for Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service. Chris believes passionately that in order to make greater improvements to life safety we need to do things differently and is proud to have been able to support Ann Jones AM throughout the life of the LCO and measure. Chris is the Chief Fire Officers Association (CFOA) UK lead for Automatic Fire Suppression systems (sprinklers).
	Dr Tim Erasmus is head of the largest Sixth Form in North Wales. Having graduated from Bangor, he has been teaching History and Politics for over twenty years. His area of historical research interest is Welsh Liberalism in the age of Lloyd George. He has a number of historical and educational publications, the most recent being a book entitled Caerwys: A History Since Victorian Times. Other interests include long distance cycling, Welsh male voice singing, and following Everton.
	Chris Evans MP was brought up in the Rhondda valleys and educated at Porth County Comprehensive, Pontypridd College and Trinity College, Carmarthen. A former trade union official with the Union of Finance Staff, he was elected as the MP for Islwyn in May 2010.
	Delyth Evans is a former management consultant and BBC and HTV who worked on the BBC’s World at One and PM programmes before becoming an assistant to Gordon Brown in 1992, and policy adviser and speechwriter to the former Labour leader John Smith between 1992 and 1994. Having been a former special adviser to The Rt Hon Alun Michael AM MP, she became the Assembly Member on the Mid & West Wales regional list when the seat was vacated by him in 2000. She was appointed Deputy Minister for Rural Affairs, Culture & the Environment, a post she held until standing down at the 2003 election.
	Jill Evans MEP was born in the Rhondda in 1959 where she still lives. In June 1999 Jill Evans and fellow candidate Eurig Wyn were elected as the first MEPs in Plaid Cymru’s history. She was re-elected to the European Parliament in 2009 and is a member of the Green / European Free Alliance Group – the fourth largest group in the Parliament; and is a member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and the Delegation for relations with Iraq. She deputises on the Agriculture Committee. She is Vice President of Plaid Cymru, party spokesperson for European and International issues and chair of CND Cymru.
	Nerys Evans AM is Plaid Cymru’s Assembly candidate for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, and her party’s director of policy. Born in Llangain near Carmarthen and educated at Manchester University and Cardiff University, she worked as an organiser for Plaid Cymru in Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, as press officer for the Plaid Cymru group on Carmarthenshire County Council, and as a Political Officer for Plaid Cymru in the National Assembly for Wales in Cardiff. She was elected to the National Assembly for Wales in 2007 as AM for Mid and West Wales. She was Plaid’s education spokesperson and chair of the cross party groups on epilepsy and broadband in rural Wales, and sat on the Assembly’s Enterprise and Learning committee. Her political interests include constitutional affairs, rural issues and workers rights. She lives in Carmarthenshire.
	Nick Evans is Managing Director of BlueSky Solutions, a company which he founded in 2006. BlueSky Solutions are a leading provider of Business Solutions in the fields of IT training, e-learning, business consulting and resourcing. He is a keen cricketer.
	Paul Evans Born and bred in the Rhondda, Paul was educated at Ysgol Gyfun Cymer before studying for a degree in Art and Aesthetics at UWIC. Paul has worked for the National Health Service, Welsh Labour and currently manages the office of an Assembly Member. Paul is a keen mountain walker, rock climber, boulderer and general outdoor enthusiast
	Rachel Evans is the Countryside Alliance’s Director for Wales. Originally from Llangadog in Carmarthenshire, Rachel is a farmer’s daughter and past member of the National Federation of Young Farmers Clubs.
	Rebecca Evans AM was educated at the Universities of Leeds and Cambridge, where she specialized in the American Civil Rights Movement. She was elected as Assembly Member for Mid and West Wales in May 2011. Rebecca has been appointed to the Health and Social Care Committee, and the Environment and Sustainability Committee. Rebecca is Vice-Chair of the Cross Party Autism Group, and Vice-Chair of the Cross Party Group on Beer and the Pub. She is also an Officer of the Cross Party Group on Neurological Conditions, and a sponsor of the Medicines Knowledge Base Programme. A former Welsh Labour Organiser for Mid and West Wales, Rebecca has also worked as Press Officer and Researcher for Carl Sargeant AM at the National Assembly for Wales. Prior to her election she was Policy and Public Affairs Officer for the National Autistic Society Cymru..
	Rhys Evans is the Deputy Director of Consumer Focus Wales. He has previously worked for the Welsh Consumer Council, the University of Glamorgan and a PR company based in Cardiff. He was brought up in London, in the stand at Old Deer Park and moved to Wales 10 years ago.
	Ross Evans grew up on a sheep farm in Rhigos in the Cynon Valley, after getting a degree in Geology from Cardiff University progressed onto the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to undertake Officer training. Following a series of repetitive injuries his Military career was ended prematurely and Ross then went onto manage various public houses in the South Wales Valleys before going on to work for S. A. Brain & Co. Following an epiphany that young people can also work in Politics, Ross went on to join the Labour party, working for both the National Assembly Labour Group and Jeff Cuthbert AM. In 2009 he went on a Career Break of 2 years to help out with the Australian Labor Party’s state and Federal Elections and, more recently, has been helping the NZ Labour Party with its upcoming General Election.
	Simon Evans was the Public Affairs Officer for Wales at the Federation of Small Businesses, where he has undertaken a wide range of media engagements, with regular appearances on BBC Radio Wales, ITV Wales and BBC Wales News as well as contributing to Working Lunch on BBC 2 and the BBC News Channel. Prior to his work at the FSB Simon was the Wales Media & Public Affairs Manager at the Institue of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales. He started his career at Westminster working for the then Shadow Secretary of State for Wales, Ron Davies MP as a political researcher and spent time working as a research consultant in the North East of England before returning to Wales to work as a Research and Development Officer for RCT County Borough Council. On the establishment of the Assembly he spent several years working as the political assistant to Christine Chapman AM, who was at the time Shadow Economic Development Minister. He is a former treasurer of Public Affairs Cymru and a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.
	Janet Finch-Saunders is the Conservative candidate for Aberconwy in the Assembly election. She is a prominent local North Wales business woman and Welsh Conservative politician who has represented the ward of Craig-y-Don and Craig side in Llandudno as a Conwy County Borough Councillor for 7 years and Llandudno Town Council for 17 years. In her previous council role of Cabinet member, Janet held the portfolio for Community Safety, Disabilities and Equalities, Food Safety, Animal Welfare, Trading Standards, Member Development and the Welsh language. She has previously missed out narrowly from being elected to the National Assembly on two occasions.
	Stephen Fisk is a retired clinical psychologist. For most of his career he worked in the mental health service in the Bridgend area. Since retiring, Stephen has been a school governor at Willows High School, and a volunteer adviser with Cardiff Citizens Advice Bureau. He has done advocacy work with Advocacy Matters and the Huggard Centre. He has acquired four grandchildren, and runs the website Abandoned Communities.
	Liam Fitzpatrick grew up in London, New York and Dublin. After a career in banking in London, he moved to the Brecon Beacons in 1997 where he set up a successful local produce restaurant that won guide book status. After his wife’s accident in 2001 he became a full-time carer for his wife, children and mother-in-law. In 2008 he was approached to run as county councillor for Talybont ward in Powys. In 2010 he was appointed portfolio holder for Corporate Policy, Performance and Equalities and sits on the board of Powys County Council. As well as holding numerous other positions, he is also an observer on the Powys Local Health Board merger.
	Tom Fowler is just one member of No Borders South Wales, an organisation that campaigns for freedom of movement and equality for all. Born, raised and resident in Newport, he has been involved in grassroots community activism for many years.
	Chris Franks AM was elected in 2007 as a Plaid Cymru list member for South Wales Central. He served as a county councillor from 1981 to 2008 and was the Leader of the Plaid Cymru group on the Vale of Glamorgan County Council. Born in Cardiff, Chris has been a member of the Local Health Board, Barry Regeneration Board and is a school governor of Ysgol Pen y Garth. He is Plaid’s Chief Whip in the National Assembly, a member of the Finance Committee and a Commissioner.
	Jonathan Freeman is Head of Strategic Business Development for Arqiva’s Wireless Access division, which provides cellular, wireless broadband, voice and data solutions for the mobile communications, public safety, local government, and commercial markets. In his current role with Arqiva he has responsibility for developing innovative business models, the commercial architecture and contracts to support the company’s neutral host and network sharing propositions. Prior to joining Arqiva Jonathan worked in management consulting delivering strategic level projects for leading media, broadcasting and telecoms firms and Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator.
	Paddy French, the Rebecca editor, was born in Northern Ireland, moving to Wales when he was seven. He started work as a trainee reporter on the Abergavenny Chronicle in 1967, but in 1971 he came to Cardiff for the one year diploma in journalism course, a hotbed of reporters disillusioned with the mainstream press. In 1973 he launched Rebecca, part of a wave of alternative newspapers in Britain. Rebecca introduced investigative journalism to Wales and its uncompromising Corruption Supplement became the leading source of information about the emerging corruption scandal in local government with some 14 councillors and business named in the Supplement later going to prison. Rebecca folded in 1982 and French left journalism for nearly two decades. In the early 1990s he set up Rebecca Television as an independent television company, producing programmes for Channel 4′s Dispatches as well as for the BBC and ITV in Wales. He joined ITV Wales’ Wales This Week in 1998 and spent ten years with the strand before retiring in 2008.
	Cerys Furlong grew up just outside Cardiff. She went to the University of Bristol, and after a stint working for a children’s charity and a Bristol MP, she moved back to Cardiff to do an MSc. She now works for the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) and is a Labour Councillor, representing the Canton ward of Cardiff since 2008. Cerys has worked in education for the last six years, and been an active member of the Labour party for far longer. She has previously been a member of Labour’s WEC and National Policy Forum. She is currently Chair of the Labour Group in Cardiff Council. She has one daughter and lives in Canton.
	Heledd Fychan was Plaid Cymru’s Parliamentary Candidate in Montgomeryshire, and is author of the Pendroni blog. She has lived in Dublin and London, but is now back in Wales and campaigning for Plaid Cymru as a candidate in the North Wales Assembly region. Heledd is particularly interested in education, heritage and rural affairs policy, and her hobbies include medieval history and kick boxing.