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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. |
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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. |
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Bethan Jenkins AM is the Plaid Cymru AM for South Wales West. She was elected in 2007. She is Plaid Cymru’s spokesperson on child poverty and culture at the National Assembly for Wales, and is chair of the cross party group on eating disorders and the new cross party group on human rights. She sits on the Petitions, Communities and Culture, and Audit Committees at the National Assembly and has an office in Neath. Bethan has a blog www.bethanjenkinsblog.org.uk and a website www.bethanjenkins.org.uk. |
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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. |
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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. |
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David Jones lives in Cardiff and attended Cardiff University. He is a non-executive director for both Young Enterprise Wales and Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust, chairing the trusts People, Places and Performance committee. For 10 years, David was Managing Director of Travelink Systems Limited, a Cardiff-based software company. Currently, David is involved in investment, executive and non-executive management in software businesses. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Michael Jones is a speechwriter for Monmouth AM and Conservative Finance Spokesman Nick Ramsay. He previously worked as a researcher for The Rt Hon Peter Lilley MP. |
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Owain Jones is a former Welsh Labour communications officer. He is currently pursuing a PhD in leadership development at Cranfield University. |
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Royston Jones was born in Swansea. He 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.He moved to wife’s home village in Meirionnydd in 1980 and became aware of the full horrors of cultural nationalism and gave up entirely on Plaid Cymru as it turned Green and moved irrevocably left. Was a founder member of Y Cyfamodwr (the Covenanters), and later the Independent Wales Party. |
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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. |
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René Kinzett is an experienced public relations and public affairs consultant, having held senior in-house posts in the NGO and not-for-profit sectors, as well as significant private consultancy experience. Currently Head of Public Affairs with the National Council on Archives, René is also an External Consultant with Positif Politics. An elected Member and Leader of the Conservative Group of Councillors on the City & County of Swansea, he is also the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Swansea West. |
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Russell Lawson began his career as a local journalist and has worked for the Federation of Small Businesses for the past 12 years as Public Affairs Manager for Wales. He writes a regular column for the Western Mail. He has been Chair of Public Affairs Cymru and is currently Chair of the Wales Social Partners Unit, which provides the official interface between business and trade unions organisations and the Assembly Government. He is also a Sustainable Development Commissioner, and an active member of both the Chartered Management Institute and the Chartered Institute of Public Relations. |
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Huw Lewis AM is the Welsh Assembly Member for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney and Deputy Minister for Children. A radical and sometimes controversial figure both in Government and on the backbenches, he has set the agenda on crucial issues such as Child Poverty, Social Justice and Labour Party reform in Wales for a number of years. He was Assistant General Secretary of the Welsh Labour Party between 1994 and 1999. |
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Ben Lloyd grew up in Powys and now lives in Cardiff. He is a graduate of Cardiff University and now works as the Policy Officer for the Welsh Liberal Democrats. |
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