Contributors

Lee Waters is Editor of the Bevan Foundation Blog. He is a former Chief Political Correspondent of ITV Wales and a BBC Producer. He was brought up in the Amman Valley and now lives in Barry.

Ian Courtney is Regional Director, Wales, of the Charity Bank – the world’s only jointly regulated bank and charity, specialising in providing social investment and advisory services to the Third Sector.  He has worked in a wide variety of business roles, including with the WDA, the OECD and one of the world’s largest management consultancies. Latterly he worked for Ubiquity Software Corporation and ran his own public relations company. He was the author of an independent review of higher education commercialisation activities commissioned by the Welsh Assembly Government. His interests are in economic and business matters. The opinions expressed here are his own and not those of the Bank.

Angela Elniff-Larsen has been involved in Regeneration, and Business Development, for over 25 years and now runs her own consultancy. She has worked in private and third sector in senior management .She has been instrumental in running and developing over 50 social enterprise and several women’s networks. She is a Member Board of Glas Cymru and Vice Chair of the Bevan Foundation. She is married to a Dane and has two daughters and two stepsons.

Heledd Fychan is Plaid Cymru’s prospective Parliamentary Candidate in Montgomeryshire, and author of the Pendroni blog.  She has lived in Dublin and London, but is now working and living in Cardiff when not campaigning in mid-Wales.  Heledd is particularly interested in education, heritage and rural affairs policy, and her hobbies include medieval history and kick boxing.

Ty Golding is deputy headteacher of Barry Island primary school.  After serving in the Armed Forces, Ty spent a year travelling and trekking extensively across much of SE Asia.  He is a coach with the Vale of Glamorgan schools rugby development squad and regularly trains and assesses for the Duke of Edinburgh award scheme. He was born in Abergavenny, brought up in the Rhymney Valley, has spent a short spell living in South Africa and now lives in Dinas Powys with his wife Sally. 

Paul Griffiths is self employed providing services to a range of universities and other public service organisations. Betwen 2000 and 2007 he worked for the Welsh Assembly Government and before that he worked for local government associations and as a lecturer in public administration.

Siobhan McClelland is External Professor Health Policy and Economics at the University of Glamorgan.  After graduating from Oxford University Siobhan trained as a health services manager before moving to academia. She provides advice on health policy and management on Welsh and international projects. Siobhan is also regularly to be seen and heard in the media offering expert commentary on health.

Jonathan Richards has been a general medical practitioner in Merthyr Tydfil since 1984 inspired to serve in the Valleys of South Wales by Julian Tudor Hart. He is External Professor of Primary Care at the University of Glamorgan and is GP with Special Interests in Clinical Governance and Research for Merthyr Tydfil and RCT teaching Local Health Board. He has learnt about living with a chronic condition since discovering his Type 2 diabetes in 2004.

Victoria Winckler is Director of the Bevan Foundation, and has written extensively on social justice issues in Wales. For many years she played a leading role in European funding in Wales, has consistently argued for the regeneration of the south Wales valleys, and promoted equality especially for women.