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AledCon 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 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.
angela EL20051 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 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.
jill-evans-mep 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 Assembly Member for Mid and West Wales 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 Assembly in 2007. She is Plaid’s education spokesperson and chair of the cross party groups on epilepsy and broadband in rural Wales, and sits on the Assembly’s Enterprise and Learning committee. Her political interests include constitutional affairs, rural issues and workers rights. She lives in Carmarthenshire.
Paul Evans was born and bred in the Rhondda and 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 and was Welsh Labour’s Media Monitoring Officer from 2004 – 2005 before taking up the post of office manager to John Griffiths AM.
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 was educated at the Universities of Leeds and Cambridge, where she specialized in the American Civil Rights Movement. 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. Rebecca is currently Policy and Public Affairs Officer for the National Autistic Society Cymru.
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.
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.

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