Y Tîm / The Team
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Matthew Hexter
In his day job Matt works as a Senior political Consultant at a Welsh Public Affairs firm. He was educated at Cardiff High School before graduating with an LLB in Law from Queen Mary, University of London and an LLM in Governance and Devolution from the Wales Governance Centre at Cardiff University.
After graduating, Matt worked for Paul Flynn MP and Ruth Jones MP in a variety of roles, meanwhile running the Fabian Society in Wales and sitting on the National Committee of Open Labour. Matt has years of experience in and around the Labour Party and the trade union movement and has written regularly on constitutional affairs and Labour and Welsh Labour politics, strategy and policy.
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Ceri Davies
Ceri brings to the Hiraeth team over twenty years of public, private and third sector experience across the policy development and delivery arena in and out of the public sector.
He has worked with Welsh Government delivering projects such as devolving the Rail Franchise to Wales, Single Use Carrier Bag Charge and the Climate Change Commission for Wales and worked in UK Government working on policy developments in several departments.
He has worked in the third sector for the Canal and River Trust and in the social enterprise sector with Indycube Cooperative and has worked on developing several other enterprises.
Outside his professional career Ceri has been involved with volunteering in the charitable and wider third sector with roles with Keep Wales Tidy, the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff Community Energy, Repair Café Wales, and the Wales Green Party who has stood for in numerous elections.
Ceri has a passion for the environment and social justice at a local, national, and global level and interested in all aspects of what we can do to address the issues we as a society face in these areas. He sees Hiraeth as major part in how we can do this
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Richard Martin
Richard is an award-winning producer, editor and screenwriter who also works in political research and communications. He is also a former professional voiceover artist.
A graduate of both Bournemouth University’s Media School & The European Film College, he remains active in screenwriting and ad-hoc productions and ongoing work about the future of broadcasting in Wales.
He began producing Golau, Cardiff University’s Politics Podcast, in 2016 which initially focussed on the policy complexities and political implications of Brexit and devolution. Golau’s success as one of the early Welsh politics podcasts demonstated there was appetite for better informed public debate in Wales. The Hiraeth Pod and wider projects are part of an ongoing process to contribute to a new Welsh public sphere.
Active in campaigning and civil society in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Richard is a former Plaid Cymru community councillor and local government candidate.