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Huw Vaughan Thomas

Huw Vaughan Thomas

Chair

We have a golden opportunity in Wales to reach out and support people of various ages and abilities and help those facing particular issues or disadvantages in society

Huw Vaughan Thomas has been Director of Taro Consultancy Ltd, a North Wales based company specialising in organisational, governance and economic policy work in the public sector, since June 2001.

He is currently a consumer representative on the Hearing Aid Council and an independent member of the Parole Board. He recently served as a Member of the Commission on Powers and Electoral Arrangements of the National Assembly for Wales.

His earlier career was spent in the civil service and local government. Previous posts have included:

  • Chief Executive of Denbighshire County Council
  • Chief Executive of Gwynedd County Council
  • Director for Wales for the Manpower Services Commission and Department of Employment.

In his previous voluntary and public appointments he has been, amongst other things, a member of the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales, a Council Member of the Prince’s Trust, Cymru, member of the National Trust’s Committee for Wales, a trustee of the RNID and a lay member of the Law Society’s Governing Council.