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	Chris O’Brien is the Welsh Conservative candidate for Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney in the 2011 National Assembly elections. He currently works as a researcher for a Welsh Conservative AM, having previously been employed by a media agency. Chris has previously been elected vice-chair and Freshers’ Week chair of Langwith College at the University of York, where he obtained a politics degree. He is a big follower of Welsh sport, a long-suffering Cardiff City season ticket holder and particularly eager to see the advancement of Welsh rugby league and Welsh cricket.
	Katie O’Brien was born in 1986 in the rural town of Lucas Ohio. She attended Ohio University where she achieved a degree in Pre-law Political Science with an English Minor. After graduating in 2008 she moved to Roath in Cardiff. She got a job in the National Assembly for Wales in 2009 and now works as a researcher for Jeff Cuthbert AM. Her interests include animals, beer and pubs, cooking, watching East Enders and annoying her lovely husband Sam Hadley.
	Matt O’Grady is the Senior Policy and Campaigns Officer for Scope Cymru. He is on the organising committee for Disability Pride and sits on the Disability Hate Crime Action Group. He graduated from Swansea University in 2006 and now lives in Splott. He is unfortunate enough to be a West Brom fan and currently has a terrible beard. 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 .
	Paul O’Shea is the Welsh Regional Secretary for UNISON Cymru/Wales. He was educated at Tredegar Grammar School and Manchester University where he studied Politics and Social Science. He is a Trustee of the Bevan Foundation and also sat on the Welsh Assembly Government’s Making the Connections Board. He is currently President of the Wales TUC and was also a member of the All Wales Convention, the body charged with examining the case for a referendum on further devolved powers for the Welsh Assembly Government.
	Rhodri ab Owen is a Consultant at Positif Politics. He has extensive experience and knowledge of the Wales political scene, particularly at the National Assembly level, and is an expert in elections and devolutionary structure. Prior to joining Positif Politics he worked on the compilation of the Wales Yearbook for two years. He graduated from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth in International Politics, where he was awarded the Professor J Mervin Williams Memorial award for the highest mark in Welsh Politics. Following this, he completed a postgraduate degree in Welsh Politics and Society.
	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.
	Emyr Owen has over 10 years experience in community development and social care in Wales, and a similar amount of time in the social work profession. Emyr graduated from the University of Cambridge with degrees in Mathematics, Philosophy and Social Work. Emyr is currently taking a lead role in developing the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) in Wales and has a strong passion for social justice. He is a first language Welsh speaker who has spent most of his professional life working and being committed to social work practice in Wales.
	Martin Owen is an inventor with digital technologies, with his company Smalti Technology, and a strategist with the EU Ireland-Wales Interreg Project Inventorium. Inventorium is about innovation through bringing together different actors – problem owners, digital technologists and entrepreneurs – to create new ways of doing things and new businesses to do them. He was formally Director of Learning at Futurelab, Bristol and he was a Lecturer in Univerity of Bangor’s School of Education.
	Natalie Owen is PR and Campaigns Manager for Tenovus, Wales’ leading cancer charity. Natalie studied Communications at Cardiff University and has since then worked for third sector organisations as a communications expert and campaigner on health, equality and social justice issues. Natalie enjoys travel, most recently to South America, art, fashion and music.
	Cathy Owens is the Programme Director for Wales for Amnesty International and a former Special Adviser at the Welsh Assembly Government. She helped organise Carwyn Jones’ leadership bid and the Yes for Wales campaign for the 3rd March Referendum.
	Roy Payne is an ex-Whitehall and City Comms Chief with substantial international business experience, and of leading change management in both the public and private sectors. A previous Director of the prestigious Foreign Press Association in London, he has a particular interest in international affairs and commerce. Now based in Cardiff, and a member of the core ‘Yes for Wales’ campaign team, Roy believes that the current economic and political environment creates exciting opportunities for the country.
	Scott Pearson is Managing Director of Newport Transport having previously been in-charge of Stagecoach in the Highlands where he was responsible for the national bus operator’s seven depots including more than 225 buses and some 450 staff. Previously Director of Delivery at Newport Transport, he holds a National Certificate of Professional Competence as well as professional qualifications in electronic engineering. He was appointed Managing Director of Newport Transport in 2011. The company is the main provider of public bus transport in Newport and also runs a number of other business units including the NT Commercial Driver Training Centre.
	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
	Derith Powell has a track record in Community Development work in a range of settings and levels and has extensive experience of Adult Education, Learning and Training. She has worked within disadvantaged Welsh valley communities as a generic practitioner. She helped to establish the all Wales National Organisation for Community Development and currently represents the Community Development field at Ministerial levels across Government Departments. She is currently Chief Executive of Community Development Cymru. She is co-author of “Community Development in the South Wales Valleys “ published by Cardiff University Press and was awarded an MBE for her services to Community Development and Social Inclusion in Wales in 2003.
	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.
	William Powell AM is the Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly Member for Mid and West Wales. A former pupil of Talgarth CP School and Gwernyfed High School, he gained a scholarship in Modern Languages at Pembroke College, Oxford. Having taught French and German for almost two decades, he has represented Talgarth Ward on Powys County Council since 2004 and is a partner on the organic family farm. He is Welsh Liberal Democrat Spokesperson on Environment, Sustainability and Rural Affairs, serving also on the Environment and Sustainability and as Chair of the Petitions Committee. A committed internationalist, he has served as Chair of the Wales Council European Movement for a number of years and is a Council Member of the European Liberal Democrats.
	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.
	Adam Price is a Research Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a former Plaid Cymru MP. His report on the economic crisis inEurope’s small economies, The Flotilla Effect, was published earier this month by Jill Evans MEP of the European Parliament’s Green/EFA Group.
	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.
	James Pritchard is from Llandudno in North Wales and is a former journalist with the Western Mail and London editor of the paper. He is now head of the Save the Children in Wales.
	John Puzey iis the Director of Shelter Cymru, the Welsh housing and homelessness charity. It operates housing advice services across the whole of Wales, as well as running a range of related projects for people in housing need. It provides education, information and training services and engages in policy and research work. John is also a Governor at Coleg Harlech and a Trustee at the Welsh Council for Voluntary Action.