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Simon Jones returned to the land of his father and mother after studying politics in Exeter University. He worked on the radical news magazine, Rebecca. He then worked for over ten years in the trade union movement as a researcher first with the Transport and General Workers Union and then with the Wales TUC. For the past ten years he has been Chief Executive of the Wales Co-operative Centre.
Simon has considerable experience of European Structural Funds having been involved in Programme development, implementation and monitoring. He is currently a member of the Objective 1 Monitoring Committee. He is also a member of the National Assembly for ’ Business Partnership and the Welsh Assembly Government’s Social Economy working group.
He has in the past been a trustee and vice chair of Industrial Common Ownership Finance Ltd and an adviser to the executive committee of the Wales Council for Voluntary Action. He has direct experience of working as a volunteer, acting as treasurer for his children’s after school club, which he regards as probably the most difficult job he has ever done.
Simon also has a background in Health and served on South Glamorgan and Bro Taf Health Authorities since 1989. For the last three years of its existence he was Chair of Bro Taf Health Authority. He was appointed Chair of Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust in April 2003.
Simon has recently announced his intention to give up being Chief Executive of the Wales Co-operative Centre from 1st April 2004 to concentrate on his National Health Service interests and to work in different ways within the social economy in .
He has three children, Rebecca, Eli and Rhys who are all being educated through the medium of Welsh.
To forget about work he fly fishes and would give it all up to spend the rest of his time on a boat on a western Irish lough.
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