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	Peter Gatward, brought up in a West Country farming village, is qualified in Chemical Engineering, Marketing and has a MBA. From industrial research (with the odd patent), through international marketing, he has spent many years overseas acquiring and running companies for UK plcs, from Mexico to Hong Kong. He has managed infrastructure and governmental organization projects for the World Bank mainly in sub-Saharan Africa. Now officially retired, he assists on a voluntary basis emerging hi-tech companies to develop their markets world-wide. Interests include mountain walking, Somerset cricket and collecting early printed books.
	Veronica German AM took up her seat as Assembly Member for South East Wales in July 2010. Veronica has a background in science and engineering and as a former teacher she cares passionately about education and young people. She is a member of the Petitions Committee; the Equal Opportunities Committee; the Health, Wellbeing and Local Government Committee; and Legislation Committee No.3.
	Vaughan Gething is the Labour AM for Cardiff South and Penarth. Formerly a solicitor specialising in employment law, he lives in Butetown with his wife Michelle.
	Len Gibbs was born, bred, schooled and always resided in Port Talbot. Educated in London and the university of life. Retired management systems consultant with former clients in UK, RSA and the USA. No political alliance but has voted for every party except the Communists and BNP. Political stance, on some subjects, are left of right of centre and on others right of left of centre. Supporter, member and sometime spokesperson for the True Wales cross-party group. Paints scenes of Wales as a hobby and is currently assisting in developing a new patented exercise method.
	Jason Gill is an account director at Peter Gill, working with clients on brand communications in advertising, print, web, video, exhibitions and signage. After graduating in Design Management at DeMonfort University he joined the creative team at McCann Erickson London, developing campaigns for major consumer brands for radio, television and print – winning awards for campaigns for Bacardi, Nescafe and Microsoft. At Peter Gill his role as an account director is to develop strategies and concepts for a range of projects and campaigns for clients in both public and private sectors, in business to business and business to consumers
	Kind Ruin Avoidance God is the Leader of The Party. He is a father of 11 children, has a combined age of 207 and is an anagram of David, Nick, Ieuan and Gordon. He speaks only in the words given to him by others, but does not discern between his sources. He is the model politician for the Twenty First Century.
	Alison Goldsworthy is Director of Wales’ first campaigns consultancy, Task 2. Previously, she was Director of Communications and Events at the Kidney Wales Foundation, where her work saw her named as one of PR Week’ 29 under 29. In late 2010/early 2011 she spent 6 months travelling and providing ad hoc campaigns support and political advice in Europe, Africa and Latin America.
	William Graham AM was elected to the Assembly in May 1999. In the First Assembly he was appointed as Committee Chair of the Pre 16 Education, Schools and Early Learning Committee. In the Second Assembly he was Chair of the Committee on School Funding and of the House Committee. He also served as party spokesman for Education, Social Justice, Local Government and Housing. In the current Assembly, William is the Assembly Commissioner for Resources. William’s political interests include the health service, economic and social development, anti-social behaviour and transport.
	Matt Greenough is Welsh Labour’s Communications Officer and stresses that any positions taken on Paraguay, cricket or any other matters on WalesHome.org are his alone and do not represent party policy. He has worked in the Assembly, in European politics – and briefly, less successfully, as a labourer.
	Dr Richard Greville is Director of ABPI Cymru Wales and Director of ABPI Northern Ireland in which role he enjoys the challenges of raising the understanding and profile of the pharmaceutical industry. He is also a member of the Advisory Boards of the Wales Office for Research and Development in Health and Social Care (WORD), Health Informatics Research Unit (HIRU) at Swansea University, Diabetes Diploma at the University of Glamorgan, and the Wales Cancer Bank.
	Tom Griffin is a graduate of Oxford University in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Since serving on a Capitol Hill Democratic staff and campaigning for Bill Clinton and the Congressional Black Caucus, he has worked in Westminster and been a senior manager at a major international high-tech company based in the valleys. Currently heading the public affairs team at the University of Glamorgan, he is researching a PhD in presidential rhetoric and communication in America’s healthcare debate. He is the former chairman of the Pontypridd Constituency Labour Party and a member of the Co-Operative Party’s parliamentary panel. An average French horn player, he is a thoroughly unexceptional WRU-qualified rugby referee, on his day the worst in Wales, with a heavy emphasis on amateur enjoyment of the game. He writes for WalesHome.org in a personal capacity.
	Cat Griffith-Williams is the Assembly Advisor for CPRW – Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales. She has a background in public affairs in the commercial sector and is a former director of public affairs for The Stroke Association in Wales. She holds a Post Graduate Certificate in Public Health.
	Hywel Griffiths is a poet and chair of Cymdeithas yr Iaith. Born in Carmarthen, he won the chair at the Urdd Eisteddfod in 2003 and 2007. A geography and mathematics graduate at University of Wales, Aberystwyth, he has also studied the rivers of Wales for a PhD degree. A volume of his poetry, Banerog, is published by Y Lolfa.
	Lesley Griffiths AM has been the Labour Assembly Member for Wrexham since 2007. She became Minister for Health and Social Services in May 2011, having previously served for eighteen months as Deputy Minister for Science, Innovation and Skills in the Welsh Assembly Government. She previously sat on the Communities and Culture, Sustainability and Audit Committees and Legislation Committee No. 5. She set up the Cross-Party Hospice Group. Her political interests include economic development, housing, health and children’s issues. Passionate about her home town and its football team, she is a Patron of ‘Standing Ground’, Wrexham and a former Board Member of Wrexham Supporters Trust.
	Sally Gronow is currently Head of Communications for Welsh Water, her previous roles in the company being in customer service. During her career she has also worked in policy development, personnel and general management.
	Philip Gross is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Glamorgan. His international reputation has been newly boosted by winning the TS Eliot Prize and Wales Book of the Year. His recent visit to Estonia, to lead a capital of Estonia, to lead an international creative writing workshop, has a more than academic meaning for Philip, whose forthcoming book of poems, Deep Field, is about his father’s story, especially his loss of language in old age.
	Alun Gruffudd is Director of Information at Positif Politics. He joined the company following six years as the Public Affairs and Policy Officer for Citizens Advice Cymru. There he managed their public affairs programme including proposals for new legislation in the fields of education, community regeneration and health. He has been an integral member of the End Child Poverty Cymru Steering Group and the Consumer Partnership Group. He trained as an adviser at Pontypridd CAB and most recently has practiced at Newport CAB. Prior to this, Alun had been a Private Secretary to both the National Assembly’s then Presiding Officer and Deputy Presiding Officer. He has also been a member of Public Affairs Cymru’s Executive Committee and is a well known and respected member of the public affairs and Wales media community.
	Llyr Huws Gruffydd AM is Plaid Cymru’s rural affairs spokesperson and lives near Rhuthun, Denbighshire. His background is in promoting small businesses, particularly in rural areas. His family also have deep roots in the farming community.
	Christine Gwyther was born and bred in West Wales, went to Pembroke School, then University College Cardiff and worked in London for a few years before securing a job in Pembrokeshire working in economic development in local government, supporting local businesses, rural development agencies and tourism. Elected to the Welsh Assembly in 1999, Christine was a member of the first Welsh government, covering the agriculture and rural development portfolio. She then chaired the economic development committee until she lost her seat to the Tories in 2007 by 98 votes. She currently works for Alun Davies AM for Mid and West Wales and she is a member of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority.
	David Hagendyk is the General Secretary of Welsh Labour and its former Head of Policy. He lives in Caerphilly with his wife and young children.
	Peter Hain MP is Shadow Secretary of State for Wales and Chair of the Labour Party National Policy Forum.
	Dominic Hannigan works as the political researcher for Jenny Randerson AM and was her campaign manager when she ran for the Welsh Liberal Democrat leadership in 2008. Originally from Cornwall, he came to Cardiff to study politics at the School of European Studies between 2004 and 2007, and has remained in the city. He was the Parliamentary candidate for Cardiff South and Penarth in 2010 and lists his political interests as the environment, education, and crime and policing.
	Harriet Harman is the MP for Camberwell and Peckham, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, Shadow Deputy Prime Minister and the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. She is a former solicitor.
	Tom Harris was first elected to parliament in 2001 and has since served as parliamentary private secretary (PPS) to John Spellar, Minister of State for Northern Ireland, and for Patricia Hewitt when she was Health Secretary. Tom was appointed as a transport minister in September 2006 and was sacked just over two years later by Gordon Brown. He is currently a member of the Transport Select Committee.
	Edwina Hart AM is the Labour AM for Gower and Minister for Health and Social Services. An AM since 1999, she has previously served as Finance Secretary, Minister for Finance and Local Government and Minister for Social Justice and Regeneration. Born in 1957 in Gowerton, she was previously the first female President of banking union BIFU and is a former chair of Wales TUC.
	Tim Hart is a multimedia journalist, specialising in sport broadcasting. While studying geography at the University of Exeter he worked with BBC Southwest in his spare time as a sport reporter and for a short while produced the Radio Devon Late Show. Tim then moved to Cardiff in September 2009 to study for a postgraduate diploma in broadcast journalism at Cardiff University. Having just graduated from Cardiff Tim is now working with the digital team at the Telegraph. He has also worked and written for The Times, The Independent and The Guardian and held the position of media officer for the Podium Student Action Group from September 2008 to September 2009.
	Owen Hathway is the Wales Policy Officer with the National Union of Teachers. He was formally an advisor to Adam Price MP and Rhodri Glyn Thomas AM before serving as senior communications officer to Plaid Cymru’s Assembly group. He is a chartered member with the CIM and alumni of both the London School of Journalism and Aberystwyth University.
	Harry Hayfield has been a member of the Welsh Liberal Democrats since June 1992 and has been active in Montgomeryshire, Ceredigion (and Pembroke North), (Aber)Conwy as well as the Warwickshire North, Nuneaton and Weston Super Mare constituencies. He is a registered carer for his grandmother and outside politics has interests in health and fitness, international affairs, agriculture and information technology.
	Mike Hedges AM was first elected in May 2011. He attended Plasmarl, Parklands and Penlan Schools, then Swansea and Cardiff universities. Originally a research scientist for British Steel at Port Talbot, Mike has spent the last 27 years as a lecturer in Pontypridd, teaching computing. Mike has represented the Morriston ward on Swansea Council since 1989 and has held many posts on the council, including Council Leader. He is currently vice chair of a scrutiny committee and has been the Welsh Local Government Association spokesperson on both social services and information. Taking an active interest in education, Mike has been a governor of Swansea University, Swansea Institute, Mynyddbach and Morriston Comprehensives, Swansea College and is currently chair of the governors of Glyncollen and Ynystawe Primary schools. He was a non-executive director of Swansea NHS trust between 1999 and 2005. Mike’s political interests include education, health, local government, sports provision and social deprivation.
	Adam Higgitt is the former Head of Policy for the Welsh Labour Party and author of the party’s 2003 manifesto. As a Special Adviser in the Northern Ireland Office, he was involved in negotiations to restore devolution and accelerate paramilitary decommissioning. He now works for Ofcom, and writes for WalesHome in a personal capacity.
	Mark Hinge has operated in public affairs for over 25 years. Originally from Ceredigion, Mark grew up in the south Wales valleys. He is the founder and managing director of The Bay Public Affairs Ltd.
	Clayton Hirst has spent his career in the media. He was first a journalist working on various publications before becoming Deputy Business Editor on The Independent on Sunday. He then moved into corporate communications and is now Director of Communications at Ofcom. He writes for various publications, including WalesHome.org, in a personal capacity
	Natasha Hirst is a freelance photographer with a diverse portfolio of political photojournalism, campaigns, weddings and family portraits. She graduated from Cardiff University with a PhD in Physical Chemistry, spent 4 years as an equality officer for the Wales TUC and is now a Director for Disability Wales, and a Committee member for Heritage Lottery Fund Wales. She writes and blogs in a personal capacity at www.natashahirstblog.co.uk and http://deaflearningwelsh.blogspot.com/
	Rachael Hitchinson is Group Information Officer to the Welsh Liberal Democrats in the National Assembly for Wales. She was number 3 on the South Wales Central list and Campaign Manager for Aled Roberts in the 2011 election and stood in Cardiff West in 2010 General Election. She is currently studying for MSc Welsh Government and Politics at Cardiff University part time. As a trained teacher her main political interests are education and social justice in particular the link between poverty, educational attainment and aspiration.
	Luke Holland worked at the heart of Labour politics for more than a decade, most recently at Labour’s national HQ where he headed up the Party’s media operation across the nations and regions. He was previously Chief of Staff on Huw Lewis’s Welsh Labour Leadership campaign, and was co-founder of the Wales 20:20 think tank. Away from politics, Luke has an unhealthy passion for crime fiction, steam trains and Bob Dylan. He is currently travelling the world with his wife Louise. They blog at http://annoyingtravelblog.blogspot.com.
	Russell Holden is a leading thinker on the linkages between sport, society and politics, as an educator, researcher consultant and communicator. His Cardiff-based consultancy In the Zone focuses on sport and politics and he is a regular commentator and analyst in this area for the Welsh and the UK Media. Russell is the co-founder and co-convenor of the Political Studies Association Specialist Research Group on Sport and Politics. He was also the co-ordinator of Sport Aid in Wales. Russell has maintained his link with global development and aid issues through the Welsh Centre for International Affiars and is now an active Trustee of the charity.
	Julian Hope has been Director of Technology at Conklude since May 2009, a mobile technology consultancy working with mobile operators, handset manufacturers and independent software vendors to develop technical strategies for mobile services. He has over 10 years of experience in the mobile industry, in a wide array of mobile technologies, services and applications from early SMS services, WAP and ringtones through the evolution of both network and handsets to high speed data and the applications they support. His previous experiences include technical design, strategy and delivery in senior roles, both directly at Orange and HTC, the device manufacturer.
	Catrin Howkins is marketing director for Webcast Global. She has previously worked as group marketing manager for the Eastlake Group, and for BBC Wales and S4C in both marketing and advertising.
	Fulup Hosking is a Cornishman living and working in Paris. He is a member of Mebyon Kernow and the Celtic League and helps out with both organisations as and when he can. He has been studying Breton for around four years now and in September he will start to teach English at the Paris Diwan school.
	Joanna Humphreys is a blogger, writer and activist on human rights and social justice, with specific attention to racial and gender equality. Joanna writes from both Cardiff and Tunis, having a keen interest in issues affecting the Middle East and North Africa. Developing her work online during the Arab Spring; she has been quoted in both Egypt Daily and on Safe World for Women for her writing about the Arab revolutions. Graduating from the University of London with a BA in English Literature, she currently works on media campaigns for humanitarian charities; all views are her own.