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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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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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David Melding AM is the Conservative AM for South Wales Central, the Shadow Minister for Economic Development and the Welsh Conservatives’ Director of Policy. He has previously chaired the Assembly’s Health and Social Services, and Standards of Conduct Committees and before the 2007 elections was spokesman on Local Government and Public services. Born in Neath in 1962, David is the former manager of the Carers National Association in Wales and a former Deputy Director of the Welsh Centre for International Affairs. He is the author of a number of publications, most recently Will Britain Survive Beyond 2020? |
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Barry Morgan has been Bishop of Llandaff since 1999 and Archbishop of Wales since 2003, having previously served as Bishop of Bangor 1993-99. Born in Neath, South Wales, he read history at London, Theology at Cambridge and trained for the ministry at Wescott House, Cambridge. He has served on the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches, and serves on the Primates Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion. He was a member of the Lambeth Commission which produced the Windsor Report 2004. He has published 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 and has chaired an inquiry on behalf of Shelter Cymru on homelessness in Wales. 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 MP has been Labour Member of Parliament for Cardiff North since 1997. Julie is a 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 is 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 is co-chair of the APPG on Global TB. She is also a member of the union Unite and was 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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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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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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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 has been Head of the Energy Saving Trust in Wales since 2006, responsible for running programmes in Wales 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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Clive Owen is from an engineering background, serving with both by the RAF and Army. He has pastored Wellspring Christian Fellowship here in Newport since 1999. In 2003, he was introduced to the ministry of Shevet Achim by a friend, Jean Evans. He has been married for 41 years with two daughters and four grandchildren. |
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Steffan Powell is a law and politics graduate from Cardiff University who went on to receive an S4C scholarship to study the postgraduate diploma in broadcast journalism at the Cardiff Journalism School. He is one of the ‘3 Dewis’ who founded the blog Politics Cymru and currently works for Tinopolis. In his spare time Steffan coaches the Cardiff University Cobras American Football Team and is lover of films, music and Blackadder. |
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Katie Prescott studied French and Italian at Pembroke College, Oxford which included stints living in Grenoble and Bologna. Since graduating in 2006, she worked for three years as Executive Assistant to entrepreneur Peter Jones star of BBC2’s Dragons’ Den where she had hands on experience working with a number of start-ups. She spent the summer of 2009 in Ethiopia, working for the Give A Future Foundation in Addis Ababa. Katie’s currently a postgrad studying at Cardiff University for a Diploma in Broadcast Journalism where she runs the blog Entrepreneurial Cardiff. |
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Dean Powell is a journalist and author and for the past 21 years has been a member and soloist with the Treorchy Male Choir. For further details visit www.deanpowell.org |
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Gareth Price is the Communications Manager for Consumer Focus Wales and leads on media and public affairs. He is a member of the Fuel Poverty Coalition steering group. From 1999-2009 Gareth worked in the Assembly Building in various capacities; as a political journalist, Assembly Government press officer and as Head of Communications for the Welsh Liberal Democrats. Originally from Abersychan, Gareth read Mathematics at Warwick and Lille universities before choosing words over numbers. |
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