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	Chris Isaac began his career working for Welsh politicians in the Assembly and Westminster. He went on to work for a London-based public affairs agency and was more recently head of PR firm StrataMatrix’s Cardiff office. He also spent four years managing Westminster and European government relations for the Santander Group, one of the world’s largest banks. He is currently a freelance communications consultant.
	Mark Isherwood is a Welsh Conservative Assembly Member for North Wales. Before election to the National Assembly for Wales in 2003, he was employed as a Building Society Area Manager in North Wales. A politics graduate of Newcastle University, Mark is also an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers. Mark takes a keen interest in economic, current and social affairs. Mark is Chair of the National Assembly’s Legislation 5 Committee and a member of the Assembly’s Communities and Culture Committee. He chairs Assembly All Party Groups on Fuel Poverty, Neurosciences and Funerals and Bereavement. Mark is an Ambassador for Clwyd Girl Guides, a Vice President of the North Wales Play Association, a Patron of the Tyddyn Bach Respite Centre in Penmaenmawr, a member of Conwy CAB and an ambassador for Clare House Hospice. Mark was also the founder of CHANT Cymru (Community Hospitals Acting Nationally Together).
	Bernie Jackson is a qualified attorney-at-law with over 20 years’ experience in law and business. Having operated her own law practice and having held senior positions in top UK law firms, she is well versed in the challenges that face business owners. She is a specialist in utilising effective networking and business development skills and remains a sought-after business speaker. Jackson is a member of key south Wales networking organisations and presently sits on the Council of the South Wales Chamber of Commerce.
	Kevin Jackson is director of Bravado Media Group, an advertising and marketing agency in Cardiff. A graduate of UWE Bristol, Kevin worked as a creative at Euro RSCG Circle (London) before taking an account manager post at Grayling Public Relations. Since moving to the Welsh capital, he worked for marketing consultancy Shining Star, as an account director role for Ethos Creative, and Cardiff design firm Celf Creative, before setting up his own agency in November 2007.
	Luke James graduated from Swansea University with a degree in politics and was elected as the Students’ Union Education Officer in March. Formerly chair of Plaid Cymru’s youth section Luke is still press officer for Plaid’s Penarth branch and a bureau member of the European Free Alliance Youth. He has been blogging regularly on life at Swansea University for just under a year, had worked for the Penarth Times before moving to university and is member of the National Union of Journalists.
	Bethan Jenkins AM is the Plaid Cymru AM for South Wales West. She was first elected in 2007. She is Plaid Cymru’s spokesperson on Heritage, Welsh Language & Sport at the National Assembly for Wales. She has an office in Neath. Bethan has a blog www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk and a website www.bethanjenkins.org.uk.
	Leighton Jenkins is Assistant Director (Head of Policy) at CBI Wales where he is responsible for working with CBI members to develop policy in Wales, building strong links with all levels of government on behalf of Welsh businesses, and representing the voice of business in Wales. Born in Bridgend, Leighton studied at King’s College London, gaining a law degree and a theology diploma, he then went on to study at Cardiff University gaining a masters degree in European policy. He writes for WalesHome in a strictly personal capacity.
	Chris Johnes is Head of Oxfam Cymru. He has spent most of his working life working on the boundaries between government and the third sector. Prior to moving to Oxfam he led the Communities First Support Network as national coordinator and has also worked for the Welsh Assembly Government and on a number of education and community development projects in southern Africa.
	Dr Martin Johnes is from Pembrokeshire and took his BA and PhD at Cardiff University. He subsequently held research posts at the universities of Oxford and Cardiff, before taking up a lectureship at St Martin’s College (of Higher Education) in Lancaster. He joined the Swansea History Department in 2006. He is a Past Chairman of the British Society of Sports History, and a member of the Swansea Centre for the History of Wales and its Borderlands. His previous books include A History of Sport in Wales (2005) and, with Iain Mclean, Aberfan: Government and Disasters (2000). Some of his articles and papers can be downloaded from his website: http://swansea.academia.edu/MartinJohnes. He tweets at http://twitter.com/martinjohnes
	Ian Johnson is interested in issues which relate to language, politics, identity, football and music. He has a PhD from Cardiff University about attitudes towards language, culture and identity in Patagonia, is president of South Wales Senior League football club, Cadoxton Barry FC, and is Plaid Cymru candidate for the Vale of Glamorgan in the 2011 National Assembly for Wales elections.
	Alun Ffred Jones AM is the former Minister for Heritage and Assembly Member for Caernarfon from 2003-07 and for the Arfon constituency since 2007. Educated at the University of Wales, Bangor, he has been a television director and producer for Ffilmiau`r Nant, a Welsh teacher a journalist with HTV. A former leader of Gwynedd County Council, he is Chair of Antur Nantlle and chair of Nantlle Vale Football Club. His main political interests are in broadcasting, community development and the economy..
	Ann Jones AM was elected to the National Assembly for Wales in May 1999 for the Vale of Clwyd. Ann is Chair of the Assembly’s All Party Group on Deaf Issues and is a member of the liaison committee between the National Assembly Labour Party and the Welsh Parliamentary Labour Party. She is currently the Chair of the Equality of Opportunity Committee and also sits on the Health, Wellbeing and Local Government Committee, the Finance Committee and Legislation Committee No.1. Her political interests include education, tourism, community safety, regeneration, social policy and the emergency services.
	Aran Jones was born in Surrey, but he maintains that his mother was on her way home to Meirionnydd from Gibraltar and that it was simply a matter of bad timing. He has lived and/or worked as an English teacher in Wales, England, Germany, Portugal, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Zimbabwe and Dubai, learnt Welsh as an adult, and has been Chief Executive of Cymuned since 2005. He also helps run SaySomethinginWelsh.com, an mp3-based language course with over 12,000 registered learners.
	Carwyn Jones AM is the First Minister of the National Assembly for Wales and Labour AM for Bridgend. A former barrister specialising in Family, Criminal and Personal Injury law, Carwyn was elected as one of Wales’s youngest Labour county councillors in 1995. Appointed Deputy Secretary for Local Government, Finance and Land in March 2000, he joined the Cabinet shortly after as Assembly Secretary for Agriculture and Rural Development. In June 2002 he became Minister for Open Government before being being re-appointed as Minister for the Environment, Planning and Countryside. He was briefly the appointed Minister for Education, Culture and the Welsh Language before serving as the Welsh Assembly Government’s Counsel General and Leader of the House from 2007-2009.
	Cerith Rhys Jones is a former Climate Change Champion for Wales and now one of two non-portfolio officers on the National Executive Committee of CymruX Young Plaid Cymru. A former student and deputy Head Boy at Ysgol Gyfun Ystalyfera in the Swansea Valley, he has also worked closely with Jonathan Edwards MP, Rhodri Glyn Thomas AM and Bethan Jenkins AM. He will begin University in 2011 with a view to reading Politics and Welsh. He can be contacted via www.about.me/cerithrhys.
	Craig Jones is standing for Welsh Labour in South Wales Central. A public affairs professional with experience of working across the public and voluntary sectors, Craig is a former speechwriter for Harriet Harman and Campaigns Director of a national children’s charity. He studied law at the Universities of Durham and Nottingham. He tweets at @CraigJonesLab.
	Crispin Jones is the Labour Assembly Candidate for Clwyd West, and the Principal consultant with Gwerin Associates, a Fuel Poverty consultancy service based in North Wales. Until 2006, he was Wales Director for eaga, who currently manage the Welsh Assembly Government’s Home Energy Efficiency Scheme, and is a previous Director with Warm Wales, a Community Interest Company providing managed energy efficiency services to Local Authorities and Housing Associations across Wales. He advises elected representatives, private sector organisations and community groups in Wales on Fuel Poverty and related issues. Outside of this work, his claim to fame is having narrowly avoided being run over by cars driven by Vinnie Jones (White Honda – Roundabout, Chiswick Road) and Paul Weller (Green Mini – Bus Lane, Piccadilly circus), although not, he claims, in the same incident! – Claims he is (in equal measure) both slightly embarrassed by and oddly proud of…
	David Jones graduated in Philosophy from Cardiff University. He is chairman of three Welsh software companies and also a non-executive director of the Cardiff and Vale Health Board. For 10 years, David was the founder and Managing Director of Travelink, a Cardiff-based software company. He is a member of the Welsh Government Ministerial advisory panel on the ICT sector and writes here in a personal capacity. David is a former associate editor at WalesHome.
	Dyfrig Jones lectures at the School of Creative Studies and Media at Bangor University, specialising in Media Practice and Theory. His research interests include films and documentaries, production theory, media policy and comics. From November 2006 to March 2009 he was the editor of Barn magazine, prior to which he worked as a producer-director for Ffilmiau’r Bont, based in Caernarfon. He is also a Plaid Cymru councillor representing Gerlan ward on Gwynedd Council. Dyfrig is a member of the S4C Authority Content Committee and Audit and risk Management Committee.
	Elin Jones AMis the Assembly Member for Ceredigion and her party’s spokesperson on health. During the One Wales government she was the Welsh Minister for Rural Affairs. She grew up on a farm in Llanwnnen, near Lampeter, and has been the Assembly Member for Ceredigion since 1999. A graduate of both Cardiff University and the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Elin worked as an economic development officer for the Development Board for Rural Wales, as a director of Radio Ceredigion and television production company Wes Glei Cyf as well as becoming the youngest-ever Mayor of Aberystwyth. She served as a shadow minister during the Assembly’s first two terms.
	Dr J Graham Jones is a native of Aberdare and has worked as an archivist at the National Library of Wales for 30 years. He is currently senior archivist and Head of the Welsh Political Archive at the Library. A widely published historian and author, he will publish a volume of essays on Lloyd George and Welsh Liberalism at a public lecture and meeting to be held at the Library on the afternoon of Saturday, 26 June 2010.
	Jeff Jones was born in Maesteg where he still lives. He was educated at the LSE, University of Wales and the Open University. For nearly 30 years he taught history and access courses in a varied of comprehensives and in the FE sector. During the same period he wasted a great deal of his spare time as a councillor and was the first Leader of Bridgend CBC. He now runs a consultancy company which tries to explain to an often baffled private sector how local government works in Wales. He is often asked to comment on local government and other issues by the Welsh media. His interests include rugby, reading and he tries to visit France as often as possible. His only claim for fame is that he once danced with the late Wendy Richard of East Enders fame in the Conservative Club, Kings Cross on a wet Sunday afternoon!
	Helen Mary Jones AM is the Deputy Leader of Plaid Cymru and spokeswoman for Health and Social Services. She is also Chair of the Children & Young People’s Committee in the National Assembly, and sits on Legislation Committee No. 3 and the Health Committee. In the Assembly Election of 1999 she won the Labour seat of Llanelli, only to lose by 21 votes in 2003. She was re-elected to the Assembly however, via the regional list, for Mid and West Wales. In 2007 Helen Mary Jones again contested the Llanelli seat, but without the security of heading Plaid’s regional list. She was elected, with a majority of nearly 4,000. Her political interests include social justice, equal opportunities, children’s rights and employment.
	Ieuan Wyn Jones AM was first elected to the Assembly in May 1999. In 2000 he was elected as President of Plaid Cymru and served as Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly until the 2007 election when the One Wales Government was formed. In the government he serves as Deputy First Minister and Minister for Economy and Transport. His political interests are many and varied but he has a special interest in health and education. He was the Member of Parliament for Ynys Mon between 1987 and 2001.
	Luned Jones is the media and corporate communications officer for Oxfam Cymru. She has previously worked at the Welsh Language Board, Academi and Disney World, Florida.
	Marc Jones is a Plaid Cymru councillor for Caia Park in Wrexham and works as a press officer. Prior to that he worked as a journalist for 22 years, including sub-editing with the Wrexham Leader, Daily Post and Liverpool Echo as well as producing current-affairs programmes in English and Welsh for BBC Wales and ITV. He has also freelanced and written occasionally for Private Eye and the Big Issue. He was also editor of Golwg magazine before opting for a life in politics. He is a socialist and republican who has co-edited the Red Poets magazine for the past 15 years. His Gramscian “pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will” is regularly undermined by the Welsh football team’s performances. His first success as a councillor was to start up an allotment of 54 plots but has yet to master growing anything but potatoes and carrots.
	Michael Jones is a Conservative researcher at the National Assembly. He previously worked as a researcher for The Rt Hon Peter Lilley MP.
	Royston Jones was born in Swansea, joined Plaid Cymru in the mid ’60s but was also familiar with those of a more militant bent. Active in the anti-Investiture campaign and convicted for attempted decapitation (of Aberystwyth statue),he spent two years in Coleg Harlech before returning to Swansea, getting married, and standing for Plaid in local elections. After moving to wife’s home village in Meirionnydd in 1980 he became aware of the full horrors of cultural nationalism and gave up entirely on Plaid Cymru as it turned Green and moved irrevocably Left. A founder member of Y Cyfamodwr (the Covenanters), and later the Independent Wales Party he was also – with Basil Thomas – the co-editor of Ein Gwlad. Royston Has now reached the stage – grandfather, wine drinker and cardigan-wearer – where he believes that until Wales has a right-of-centre party committed to the nation, the free market system, and full independence, we shall drift along with self-serving and uninspiring mediocrities ‘leading’ a nation fast losing the will to live. Favoured word for current mood of despair: anomie.
	Susan Elan Jones is the Labour MP for Clwyd South. She comes from Rhosllannerchrugog, a small town in the constituency she now represents in Westminster. Susan is probably the first Parliamentarian who is happy conversing in both Welsh and Japanese. After her election in May 2010, Susan was appointed as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Rt Hon Harriet Harman MP and is a member of the Welsh Affairs Select Committee. She is a member of many different local organisations – including the Friends of Llangollen International Eisteddfod; St David’s Church, Rhos and the Friends of the Stiwt (where she is an Honorary Vice President).
	Suzanne Jones has been the Director of Scope Cymru since August 2008. She has worked for Scope for 19 years, in community fieldwork and in Scope’s Early Years Unit. In 2000, She visited Siberia with Scope to support the government in setting up parent groups for children with disabilities. She lives in an old cider mill with her partner, has three sons and two grandchildren. Scope Cymru is a charity that supports disabled people and their families. Scope’s vision is a world where disabled people have the same opportunities as everyone else.
	Dylan Jones-Evans is Director of Research and Innovation at the University of Wales and Chairman of the Welsh Conservatives’ Economic Commission. At 29, he was appointed as the youngest professor of business and management in Europe, holding the chair of entrepreneurship and small business management at the University of Glamorgan. He has subsequently held academic chairs at the University of Wales Bangor and NEWI in Wrexham. He is currently visiting professor of entrepreneurship at the Turku School of Economics in Finland. He is widely recognized as one of the leading economic analysts in Wales and a regular media commentator and author of the best-selling textbook Enterprise and Small Business. He is also director of the Wales Fast Growth Fifty and sits on the Executive Committee for the Institute of Directors in Wales.