Institute of Welsh Affairs

Fellows of the IWA (in alphabetical order)

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	Professor Jane Aaron Jane Aaron is a Professor in the School of Humanities at the University of Glamorgan, and the co-director of that institution's Centre for Gender Studies in Wales.
	The Marquess of Anglesey DL, FSA, FRHistS, Hon. F.R.I.B.A.
	Nigel Annett Nigel Annett, with Chris Jones formed Glas Cymru, the not-for-profit company that acquired Welsh Water in May 2001, the change in ownership financed by a successful £1.9 billion bond issue. Nigel was appointed Managing Director of Glas Cymru in January 2005. Nigel was previously a Director of Dwr Cymru Welsh Water (1992 - 2000), prior to joining Welsh Water Nigel held various investment banking positions with Schroders, County NatWest and Wasserstein Perella.
	Professor Paul Atkinson Paul Atkinson is Distinguished Research Professor in Sociology at Cardiff University where he is Associate Director of the Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics. His research interests also include the sociology of the arts. He has recently published a book about Welsh National Opera, entitled Everyday Arias.
	Dr John G Ball Dr John Ball is a senior lecturer in strategic economics at Swansea Business School. Educated at Dynevor Grammar School, Swansea, University College Cardiff and University of Wales, Swansea he is widely regarded as an expert on regional policy.
	Simon Baynes
	Graham Benfield Graham Benfield OBE, MA(Oxon), MSc, is chief executive of Wales Council for Voluntary Action and has wide experience of working with communities, voluntary organisations and volunteering throughout Wales and previously in London, Liverpool, and Plymouth.
	Sioned Bowen
	Noreen Bray
	Richard Brunstrom
	John Bryant Currently a director of Welsh Water and Costain Group, and formerly Chief Executive of British Steel and Corus Group.Born in Cardiff and educated at West Monmouth School Pontypool. Lives in Bridgend and enjoys sport,music and his family.
	John Burke Born in Ireland, I came to work in Wales for a year and made it my home.
	Eleanor Burnham Eleanor Burnham is the Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly Member for North Wales. A fluent Welsh speaker, she is currently the party champion for the Welsh language and her political interests lie in full devolution for Wales, social inclusion and lifelong-learning.
	Bill Capper Chairman of Capper & Co Ltd since 1971.
	Professor Antony J Chapman Professor Chapman is UWIC's Vice-Chancellor. He has, with colleagues, produced close to 20 books and some 150 journal articles, and his research has been funded by grants/contracts from the EU, the SSRC/ESRC, SRC/EPRC and MRC.
	Dr Carl Iwan Clowes FFPHM Sylfaenydd y Ganolfan Iaith a Threftadaeth yn Nant Gwrtheyrn. Cadeirydd cyntaf Antur Aelhaearn, y mudiad pentrefol cydweithredol cyntaf yn gwledydd Prydain. Cadeirydd sylfaenol Dolen Cymru, y ddolen rhwng Cymru a Lesotho. Cyn Gyfarwyddwr Meddygol yn y Gwasanaeth Iechyd yn dilyn gyrfa mewn practis meddygol yn Llyn ac wedyn arbenigwr mewn iechyd cyhoeddus. Aelod o Fwrdd Canolfan Iechyd Cymru. Founder of the Centre for Language and Heritage at Nant Gwrtheyrn. Founder Chair Antur Aelhaearn, the first community co-op in the UK. Founder Chair Dolen Cymru, the Wales-Lesotho Link. Formerly a Medical Director in the NHS following a period in general practice on the Llyn peninsula before specialising in social medicine. Currently a Board member of the Wales Centre for Health.
	Phil Cooper Chief Executive of Venture Wales.
	George Crabb I am a retired teacher and have long been active in the peace movement. Although brought up in London, I have lived in Wales since the late 40s. I have learnt to speak Welsh fairly fluently, sing in a Cor Meibion and enjoy all aspects of the ancient culture. I am currently involved in a Cynefin y Werin initiative, aimed at working with other networks in Wales to establish a Civil Society Forum.
	Daniel Cunliffe Daniel Cunliffe is a Senior Lecturer in multimedia computing and leads the Computing and Minority Languages Group in the School of Computing at the University of Glamorgan.
	Rhys David Rhys David has been associate director of the IWA since 2001. Previously a journalist with the Western Mail and the Financial Times, he is also the former managing director and publisher of Business, a Pearson Group/Conde Nast title. At the IWA he has been responsible for a number of research projects including studies into the socioeconomic characteristics of the south Wales valleys and into industrial clusters. He is a member of the Regional Studies Association and of the Royal Society for Arts.
	Carole-Anne Davies Carole-Anne is Chief Executive of the Design Commission for Wales, a trustee of the National Museums and Galleries of Wales and chair of mesa, Wales’ first International Performance Collective. Carole-Anne has worked with architects, artists, design and construction teams on public art, infrastructure development and regeneration projects in the private and public sectors for more than a decade. She was a member of CABE’s advisory panel for PROJECT, promoting collaboration between artists and architects and has contributed to professional and post-graduate training at the Portuguese Centre for Design, Lisbon, Portugal and the University of Barcelona, Spain. Carole-Anne currently chairs the Landscape Institute Awards judging panel for Landscape Policy and is a member of the UWIC School of Art and Design Advisory Board. She was awarded the Welsh Woman of the Year Award for Arts & Media in 2005.
	Siwan Eleri Davies Siwan is Head of Legislation and Chamber Services at the National Assembly for Wales. She returned to Wales in 2008 after 3 years in Australia, where she was Deputy Clerk of the Queensland Parliament. Siwan is also a member of Glas Cymru (Welsh Water).
	Ceri Doyle Ceri began her career as a management trainee with British Coal Opencast. She moved to the planning department of Glasgow City Council and set up their first European Unit. Headhunted to South Lanarkshire County Council as Head of International Affairs, she later established the Council's External Resources Unit, a best practice model now replicated by local authorities across the country. As Head of External Resources, Ceri established a number of not for profit companies representing public, private and voluntary sector interests in tackling unemployment and community regeneration. She was a Board member of South Lanarkshire College, and is currently a non-executive director with Bro Morgannwg NHS Trust. In 2005 she was shortlisted for Welsh Woman of the Year.
	Keith Dye Managing Director, Western Mail & Echo Ltd.
	Revd Aled Edwards CYTUN (Churches Together in Wales) National Assembly Liaison Officer and Chair of the Welsh Refugee Council Board of Trustees.
	Richard Edwards North Wales Central Area Committee Member and Member, Wales Regional Committee of Postwatch Wales; former Member of Welsh Language Board (Chair Public Sector Committee); Member, Oftel Wales Advisory Committee; former Consultant Director of Policy and Public Affairs to a number of organisations and bodies in the North West of England and Wales; former senior manager NSPCC Wales; former teacher; former Clwyd County Councillor & former member of North Wales Police Authority and Clwyd Health Authority. Aelod Pwyllgor Ardal Ganolog Gogledd Cymru ac Aelod Pwyllgor Rhanbarthol Cymru Postwatch Cymru; cyn Aelod o Fwrdd yr Iaith Gymraeg (Cadeirydd y Pwyllgor Sector Cyhoeddus); Aelod, Pwyllgor Ymgynghorol Oftel Cymru; cyn Gyfarwyddwr Ymgynghorol Materion Cyhoeddus a Pholisi gyda nifer o sefydliadau a chyrff yng Ngogledd Orllewin Lloegr a Chymru; cyn uwch reolwr NSPCC Cymru; cyn-athro; cyn Gynghorydd Sir Clwyd a chyn aelod o Awdurdod Heddlu Gogledd Cymru ac Awdurdod Iechyd Clwyd.
	Richard Eley Richard Eley MA (cantab), FCA, FRSA. Trained, Touche Ross Chartered Accountants, Cardiff. Finance Director University Hospital of Wales, Finance Director TVU London, currently Finance Director NHS Acute Trust. President Thames Valley Society of Chartered Accountants, 2005/2006, President Reading and District Welsh Society, 2000/2001, and 2004/2005.
	David M Evans I am an expatriate who retains a deep interest in the well-being of my homeland, and desires to see it gain the prosperity it requires to maintain its cultural identity - not be a net exporter of talent!
	Jonathan Evans MEP MEP for Wales. Leader of the Conservatives in the European Parliament 2001 to 2005.
	Rosemarie Griffith
	Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach Vice-Chairman, Goldman Sachs International.
	Peter Griffiths Peter is Chief Exec of Principality Building Society and Chairman of CBI Wales. He sits on the Board of BITC Wales and has a deep seated interest in the Welsh housing market. Peter was appointed BITC Ambassador on Corporate Responsibility 2006.
	Ian Hargreaves Ian Hargreaves is Professor of Journalism at Cardiff University and ran the Centre for Journalism Studies at the university between 1998 and 2002. He is also well known as a former editor (the Independent and the New Statesman), writer and broadcaster. Currently, his main role is as Director of Corporate and Public Affairs for BAA, the airports group.
	Jeffrey C Harris
	Gerald Holtham Currently Managing Partner of Cadwyn Capital LLP.
	Dr H G A Hughes Raised in Pontypridd; seaman, anthropologist, specialist in Micronesian and Polynesian languages; writer, translator; Secretary, PGC/CPW, the Communist Party of Wales.
	Dr Dafydd Huws
	Gareth Ioan Gareth Ioan yw Prif Weithredwr IAITH: y ganolfan cynllunio iaith. Mae hefyd yn aelod blaenllaw o'r felin drafod ar faterion iaith a chefn gwlad Y Ffwrwm. Mae'n Gadeirydd ar Theatr Cydweithredol Troed-y-rhiw ac yn Gyd-Ysgrifennydd Anrhydeddus ar gymdeithas Gwartheg Hynafol Cymru. Gareth Ioan is CEO of IAITH: the Welsh centre for language planning. He is also a leading member of the west Wales language think tank, Y Ffwrwm. He is currently Chair of the innovative Troed-y-rhiw Co-operative Theatre Company and Joint Hon. Secretary of The Ancient Cattle of Wales Society.
	Judith Isherwood Judith Isherwood is currently Chief Executive of the Wales Millennium Centre, a post she has held since 2003. Judith has spent more than 25 years working in the arts and cultural industries, the majority of this time in her native Australia. She is committed to the development of the Wales Millennium Centre as one of the world's leading cultural centres.
	Dafydd Iwan Dr. Dafydd Iwan, B.Arch., LL.D., Llywydd Plaid Cymru; Aelod o Fwrdd Cyngor Gwynedd, yn arwain portffolio Datblygu; Cyfarwyddwr Cwmni Sain. Dr. Dafydd Iwan, B.Arch., LL.D., President Plaid Cymru; Member of Cyngor Gwynedd Council Board, leading the Development Portfolio; Director Sain (Recordiau) Cyf.
	Dyfrig James A native of Llangadog Dyfrig is now Managing Director of Lafarge Aggregates Ltd which is a major UK building products business. Enjoys being involved and assisting Welsh business and affairs. A member of Wales in London.
	Keith James
	D Huw John Retired FE lecturer and former Carmarthenshire County Councillor and Cabinet Member. I now have more time to indulge in my hobbies of harp repair and renovation, gardening and folk dancing. Being unashamedly patriotic, I also get a little involved in politics!
	Robert John
	Clayton Jones Director of a number of European Businesses; Incoming Chairman (2009-2011) Confederation of Passenger Transport Wales; Wales representative on UK CPT schools transport committee; Vice-Chairman, Pontypridd Chamber of Trade & Commerce.
	Professor E W Jones Head of the largest specialist University College in England which deals with policy and implementation issues relating to agriculture, food production, land use and rural communities.
	Dr Gareth Jones Dr Jones is a former chairman of Nevill Hall Hospital and formerly a member of Powys County Council. He has been a director of the Institute of Welsh Affairs since 1993.
	Dr Geraint Stanley Jones Lifelong dedication to Public Broadcasting as producer and executive. Former Controller BBC Wales, Managing Director BBC Regional Broadcasting, and Chief Executive S4C. Also former Chairman of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and of Sgrin Wales, and past Board member of the Arts Council of Wales and of the Wales Millennium Centre.
	Professor Phil Jones Phil Jones is Professor of Architectural Science and Head of School at the Welsh School of Architecture. His research and teaching interests include environmental design, energy use and sustainability relating to the built environment.
	Tom Jones
	Henry J Kroch
	Dafydd Bowen Lewis Founder Craftcentre Cymru Retail Group. Formerly Vice Chair Arts Council Wales and Board Director of Wales Millennium Centre. Currently Council Member National Museum Wales and Director of Sinfonia Cymru.
	Huw M Lewis
	Roger Lewis Roger was appointed group chief executive of the Welsh Rugby Union in September 2006, having previously spent his entire 30-year career in the media and music businesses. After working in BBC and commercial radio he left in 1990 to become Managing Director of EMI's Classical Division and the EMI Premier Label Group, then World Wide President of the Decca Record Company. He stayed in the record industry for eight years before joining Classic FM in 1998. He was Managing Director and Programme Controller of Classic FM and a main board director of its parent company, GWR group plc for six years. His appointment as Managing Director of ITV Wales in September 2004 saw him take charge of all broadcasting matters, including the commissioning of the ITV Wales regional schedule. He was also responsible for managing the Regional Affairs department liaising on all compliance, training and broadcasting issues. Roger was born at Cefn Cribwr, near Bridgend, 24th August 1954 and educated at Cynffig Comprehensive School, and the University of Nottingham. In his youth he played with the Glamorgan Youth Orchestra, the National Youth Orchestra of Wales and the Welsh Jazz Orchestra. Following his graduation, he spent four years as a musician, composer and musical director.
	Lord Richard Livsey of Talgarth
	Sir Richard Lloyd Jones Vice-Chairman of Age Concern England and a member of the Council of Cardiff University. Since retiring as Permanent Secretary of the Welsh Office in 1993, he has been chairman of the Arts Council of Wales (1994-1999); of the Fishguard International Music Festival (1999-2005); and of Age Concern Cymru (1999-2005).
	Dr David Lloyd Owen Managing Director of Envisager, a water finance consultancy based in Ceredigion. Six books and numerous articles on water markets and politics published.
	Elfyn Llwyd Member of Parliament, Parliamentary Leader of Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales.
	Wilf Marshall Wilf Marshall is Chief Executive of The Marshall Gurney Partnership, a Wales based international business consultancy specializing in strategic organizational development.
	Dr Arun Midha Dr Arun Midha is based in Cardiff University and has a lead responsibility for strategic and business planning of postgraduate medical and dental education in Wales. He is a member of the General Medical Council and is its Treasurer and Chair of Resources. He is currently a member of the Welsh Language Board and sits on the Broadcasting Council for Wales.
	Caroline L Oag Chairman CWO Wales; Chairman CW Wales Forum; Executive Committee UNIFEM Wales; Executive Committee UNA Wales; Bow Group; EUW; CPHRC. Areas of special interest: Women's Issues; Political Communications; Impact of New Media on Politics.
	John Wyn Owen Chairman of the University of Wales Institute,Cardiff; Welsh member of the UK Health Protection Agency; Director, Madariaga European Foundation,Brussels.
	Professor Keith Patchett
	Steve Penny A specialist in Commercial Law issues he advises companies and organisations on corporate finance, company and business disposals, acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures and the commercial agreements they enter into. Steve has developed a particular expertise in the field of sport and sponsorhip agreements as well as acting in relation to several inward investments in the area. Steve is Vice President of West Wales Chamber of Commerce and a Director of Swansea City AFC.
	Dr Eurwen Price
	William R Price An octogenarian, who loves to listen, to learn and support or serve worthwhile activities of life.
	Alwyn Pritchard Alwyn Pritchard, Plas Boduan, Boduan, Pwllheli, Gwynedd LL53 6DR.
	Lord Gwilym Prys Davies
	Diane Quinton-Adams Active over many years in shaping the design, development and improvement of many organizations. Often behind the scenes. Current interests include the provision of health and social care.
	Professor Richard Rawlings Professor Richard Rawlings, London School of Economics and Political Science: as from October 2006, Professor of Public Law, University College London.
	Lord (Ivor) Richard
	Lord Rowe-Beddoe Lord Rowe-Beddoe has been Chairman of the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff since 2001, and was formerly Chairman (1993 to 2001) of the Welsh Development Agency. He has had a successful business career within multi-national companies, and alongside that has always supported the performing arts. Amongst other appointments, he is President of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
	Wiard Sterk Wiard is currently Director of CBAT The Arts & Regeneration Agency, a Cardiff based organisation which specialises in the integration of artist led projects in urban and rural regeneration projects in collaboration with the public and private sectors and communities. His career spans both the Visual and Performing Art and he holds a BA (Hons) Degree in Art History.
	David Stevens
	Geraint Talfan Davies Chairman of Welsh National Opera and former Chairman of the Arts Council of Wales (2003-2006) and Controller of BBC Wales (1990-2000). He is also a board member of the Wales Millennium Centre, a non-executive director of Glas Cymru Cyf (Welsh Water), and a trustee of the Media Standards Trust.
	Professor Mark Tewdwr-Jones Professor Mark Tewdwr-Jones is Professor of Spatial Planning and Governance and Director of Research at The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, and Visiting Professor, School of Geography, Planning and Environment, University College Dublin. Mark is an internationally renowned expert in urban and regional planning. With almost 20 years of experience, his specialist research interests are predominantly in the fields of British planning policy and European spatial planning, rural housing, regional economic development, governance and politics. He regularly advises ministers and government departments in the EU, England, Scotland and Wales, quangos and professional organisations, and serves on the RTPI General Assembly.
	Jeremy Thomas Jeremy Thomas was born in Swansea and educated at Dynevor School Swansea and Christ's College Cambridge. He is a partner specialising in corporate law at the London law firm Allen and Overy.
	Ned Thomas Ned Thomas has been a journalist with Times Newspapers and editor of the British Government's Russian-language cultural quarterly Anglia. He was the founder-editor of Planet - the Welsh Internationalist and is currently Chair of the company set up to publish the first Welsh-language daily newspaper, Y Byd. He taught for many years at University of Wales, Aberystwyth where he is currently academic director of the Mercator Centre, and has been a visiting professor at the universities of Salamanca, Moscow and Paris. He is the author of several volumes of literary and cultural criticism. Photo credit: Marian Delyth
	Professor Nigel Thomas Nigel Thomas is Professor of Childhood and Youth Research at the University of Central Lancashire, having previously been a Senior Lecturer at University of Wales Swansea. He lives in North Pembrokeshire and is an active member of Plaid Cymru. Photo credit: Paul Sambrook
	Roger Geraint Thomas Former partner with Eversheds solicitors, chairman of University of Glamorgan, member of the boards of WNO, Techniquest and Business in Focus.
	Dr Neil Thompson Formerly Professor of Applied Social Studies at Staffordshire University. He is now the managing director of Avenue Consulting Ltd (www.avenueconsulting.co.uk), based in Wrexham. His latest book is People Problems, published by Palgrave Macmillan.
	Martin Tinney Martin Tinney is widely regarded as the pre-eminent dealer in 20th century and contemporary Welsh art, and has almost single-handedly been responsible for the transformation in the professionalism of the commercial visual arts scene in Wales.
	W Tudor John Bill Tudor John, from Llantrisant originally, was educated at Cowbridge Grammar School and Downing College, Cambridge where he is presently an Associate Fellow. He spent most of his career with Allen & Overy, the international law firm, becoming a partner in 1972, Managing Partner in 1992 and Senior Partner in 1994. On his retirement from the firm in 2000 he became a Managing Director of Lehman Brothers where he currently chairs their European Commitment Committee. He is a non-executive director of Grainger Trust plc and of The National Film and Television School, Chairman of The Portland Building Society and of Wales in London and Deputy Chair of The Financial Markets Law Committee. He is a Steward of Appeal of The British Boxing Board of Control and a member of the Oxford University Development Board. Bill is also the current High Sheriff of Hertfordshire.
	Paul Twamley Former Finance Director of Hyder Plc, now non-executive Chairman of several companies with venture capital and private equity backing.
	Sir Donald Walters
	Dafydd Wigley Dafydd Wigley is the Former Leader of Plaid Cymru, and currently honorary President of the Party. He was MP and later AM for Caernarfon (1974-2003) and is currently Pro-Chancellor of the University of Wales.
	Kirsty Williams Kirsty Williams is Assembly Member for Brecon and Radnorshire and Enterprise and Learning Spokesperson for the Welsh Liberal Democrats.
	Rhiannon Wyn Hughes Rhiannon Wyn Hughes MBE, Leader of Denbighshire County Council and Member of a number of cultural organisations including Vice-Chair of the Arts Council of Wales; Member of the National Museums of Wales; Chair of Bodelwyddan Castle Trust; Member of the UNESCO Wales Committee and Chair of ECTARC (European Centre for Training and Regional Co-operation).
	Sasha Wynn Davies Sasha Wynn Davies, Head of Economic Development, Ynys Mon/Isle of Anglesey County Council. Sasha returned to Anglesey at the end of 2005 following a progressive career with the WDA in Cardiff and North Wales.
	Dr Hilary Lloyd Yewlett Dr Yewlett's career has taken many new turns since she retired early from the University of Wales. She is currently studying regional and local history at St Catharine's College, Cambridge.
	R G A Youard Mr Youard is a retired commercial solicitor now living in Herefordshire whose family have had (and still have) a presence in Merioneth since the 19th century and earlier.