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Gareth Mantle studied economics and politics at Bristol University before completing a Masters at Oxford University, where he wrote his thesis on how the Welsh Assembly has affected policy in Wales. A Labour activist, he has helped out on many campaigns and is currently the constituency-based researcher for Owen Smith, newly-elected MP for Pontypridd. |
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Adrian Masters is a political journalist working in TV and radio, living and working in Wales. Born in Newport, Adrian trained in London and began his 17-year journalistic career at Cardiff’s Red Dragon FM as a reporter and newsreader. He currently presents BBC Wales’ Dragon’s Eye programme and Called to Order on Radio Wales. Outside politics and broadcasting, Adrian writes about literature for the literary magazine, the Raconteur. |
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Walter May was formerly EMEA MD and Worldwide Head of Sales at GXS (formerly UDEX) having spent more than 20 years working for US Software and Technology companies in a range of Technical, Sales / Sales Management and General Management roles. He ran the UK Business of a former GE owned software company, SDRC, leading the company for 5 years and growing the business from $6 million to $30 million turnover. He also worked in a European Sales leadership role at IBM PLM and was European VP for San Jose based technology company, BackWeb Technologies. Prior to joining GXS, Walter was a founder and VP of Sales at Welsh Electronics Manufacturer, DeepStream Technologies. He has also held Interim Management roles in a number of Welsh based start-ups. Walter founded the LinkedIn Groups “Welsh Entrepreneurs” and “Mentors for Welsh Entrepreneurs”. He is currently working with Cardiff School of Management, researching the support services needs of Welsh high-tech start-ups. Walter holds an M.Sc in Mechanical Engineering from Cranfield University and an MBA from the Open Business School. |
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Siobhan McClelland brings together the worlds of politics and health and social care and is an acknowleged expert in Welsh Health Policy. After graduating from Oxford University Siobhan trained as a health services manager in the NHS in Wales before moving to academia and is currently an External Professor at the University of Glamorgan and Visiting Professor at the University of Northumbria as well as working providing advice on health policy and management on Welsh and international projects. Siobhan is also regularly to be seen and heard in the media commenting on wider political and social issues and offering expert commentary on health. |
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Neil McEvoy is deputy leader on Cardiff Council, leader of the Plaid Cymru group on the local authority, and a councillor for the Fairwater area in the west of the capital city. He has represented the ward since 1995. His interests include economic development and regeneration. He has also stood as a Plaid Cymru candidate for the Cardiff West constituency at Westminster. |
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Patrick McGuinness teaches French and Comparative Literature at Oxford University. His next book of poems, Jilted City, appears in March next year, followed by a novel about the last months of the Ceausescu régime in Romania, The Last Hundred Days. He is writing a book about poetry and radical politics of the left and right in late 19th Century France. |
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Alexandra McMillan is the Public Affairs Manager for mental health charity Gofal Cymru. She is the current Chair of Public Affairs Cymru Executive and sits on the BBC Wales’ Audience Council. |
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Alastair Milburn is Managing Director of Cardiff-based Effective Communication, one of the fastest growing communications agencies in the country. The company was launched in 2004 after he enjoyed huge success in the media industry, as the award-winning editor of the South Wales Echo, deputy editor of the Western Mail, and as an award-winning young reporter. Effective Communication provides services which include press and media relations, marketing, including print and design, website development, social marketing and training. Alastair specialises in providing media training and crisis management. |
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Darren Millar AM was elected to the National Assembly for Wales in May 2007. A Conservative AM, Darren was appointed as Shadow Minister for Communities and Local Government in February 2009. He currently chairs the Assembly’s Health, Well-being and Local Government Committee and the Cross Party Group on Faith. He also sits on the Scrutiny of the First Minister Committee and Legislation Committee No.5. He is a former Shadow Minister for the Environment and Planning and also a former member of the National Assembly’s Sustainability Committee. |
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Dylan Moore is a writer, teacher and editor. He grew up in Mid Wales and now lives in Cardiff. He is co-founding editor of The Raconteur magazine and a New Critic for National Theatre Wales. He is also Second in English at Caerleon Comprehensive School, a creative writing tutor for Newport’s young writers’ squad and an A Level examiner for the WJEC. |
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Jessica Morden is the Labour MP for Newport East. Brought up in nearby Cwmbran, she was educated at Croesyceilliog School before reading History at Birmingham University. Before becoming a Member of Parliament Jessica was General Secretary of the Welsh Labour Party. Jessica and her partner Sion live in Newport with their two children Mali and Ifan. |
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Barry Morgan is the Bishop of Llandaff and Archbishop of Wales. A former Bishop of Bangor, he was born in Neath and read history at London, Theology at Cambridge and trained for the ministry at Wescott House, Cambridge. He serves on the Primates Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion and is the author of a number of articles and books, his latest being a study of the work of the welsh poet R. S. Thomas ‘Strangely Orthodox’. He is also currently Pro-Chancellor of the University of Wales, a fellow of Cardiff, UWIC, Bangor, Lampeter and Swansea and President of the Welsh Centre for International Affairs. Since 2004, he has been Chair of Tomorrow’s Wales – Cymry Yfory. |
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Gareth Morgan has worked in the world of search engines and online marketing for over six years. He set up Liberty Marketing, an online marketing agency, in 2008 to help small and medium sized business make best use of the internet. Gareth has a love for all things automotive as well as travel, and tries to visit a different country every few months. |
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Jonathan Morgan AM is the Conservative Assembly Member for Cardiff North, and former regional AM for South Wales Central. He is the Chair of the Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee and was previously the Conservative spokesperson for Health and Social Services. Born in Cardiff in 1974, Jonathan is a graduate of the University of Wales, Cardiff, and a former European officer for Coleg Glan Hafren in Cardiff. He writes a blog called The Blue Print. |
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Julie Morgan was the Labour Member of Parliament for Cardiff North from 1997 to 2010. Julie is a former member of the Justice and Public Administration Select Committees, of the Welsh Group of Labour MPs and of the Parliamentary Labour Party’s Women’s Group. She was chair of several groups – the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Children in Wales, the APPG for Gypsy and Traveller Law Reform, the APPG for Sex Equality (working with the Equality and Human Rights Commission) and was co-chair of the APPG on Global TB. She is also a member of the union Unite and is a founder member of the Welsh Refugee Council. |
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Laura Morgan has been Corporate Affairs Manager at the University of Wales, Newport since June 2007. She provides support, advice and guidance to the Vice-Chancellor in relation to the creation and maintenance of relationships between the university and key stakeholders. Prior to joining the university, she was communications officer at Autism Cymru and also worked for Grayling Public Affairs and Public Relations. A former school governor, her interests include education, travelling and watching her two children play football. |
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Gwilym Morris has a background in developing intelligent interfaces between people and public services. He has a particular track record of creating processes to involve people from hard to reach groups in the development and delivery of public services and democratic structures. A former member of the Strategic Advisory Board of the International Center for Excellence in e-Democracy, he is a Director of The Pollen Shop and Pollination Campaigns, and a non-Executive Director of The Campaign Company. |
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Paul Murphy has been Labour MP for Torfaen since 1987. He served as the Secretary of State for Wales twice, from 1999 until 2002 and most recently January 2008 until June 2009. Between 2002 and May 2005 he Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. He is also a former Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee and a Minister of State for Northern Ireland before and during the Good Friday Agreement. Paul was born in 1948 and was educated at St Francis Roman Catholic School in Abersychan, West Monmouth School in Pontypool and Oriel College, Oxford. |
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Branwen Niclas is the Communications and Media Manager for Christian Aid in Wales. She has travelled and worked in a number of countries in Africa, South America and Asia with Christian Aid. Previously Branwen worked for the World Education Project, Bangor and the University of Wales, Bangor. Former Chair of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Cymraeg, she is a committed campaigner and activist on global justice. Branwen is a frequent commentator on global issues on radio and television. |
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Willy Nilly is a fictional character from the play for voices, Under Milk Wood. As the local postman he shares letters with his wife, Mrs Willy Nilly, to steam open and read aloud by the squint of the Spring sun through the one sealed window running with tears while the drugged, bedraggled hens at the back door whimper and snivel for the licquorish bog-black tea. His profiles on this site attempt to appraise the subject from the point of view of the strengths and qualities that individual brings to public life in Wales. He has occasional connection with the Rev Eli Jenkins. |
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Erin Norman is from St. Louis, Missouri in the United States; she immigrated to England in 2001. Erin has been blogging with Independent Minds since May 2009. Since then she has been featured on the Independent Editor’s Choice several times, and also has acquired the arguably dubious distinction of being the only non-staff member on the Independent’s Top 10 Most Read List. She is beginning her career as a freelance features writer. |
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Helen Northmore is Head of the Energy Saving Trust in Wales, responsible for running programmes to support reducing carbon emissions amongst the public, local authorities, housing associations and communities. The Energy Saving Trust in Wales provides a freephone helpline, face to face advice and support on its website aimed at encouraging people to take action to reduce emissions and their energy bills in their daily lives. A Climate Change Commissioner, a member of the fuel Poverty Advisory Group, Steering Group of the Low/Zero Carbon Hub, Chair of the Existing Homes Alliance Cymru Wales, and many other bodies, Helen represents and promotes Energy Saving Trust activities, linking and creating partnerships with a wide range of Welsh organisations. |
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