Consumer Focus Wales Board Members
Vivienne Sugar
Vivienne Sugar was appointed as the Chair of Consumer Focus Wales in January 2008. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Housing having previously been Director of Housing at both Cardiff and Newport. In 2005 she was appointed as Wales Advisor to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and also became a Vice President of Swansea University. Vivienne was Chief Executive of the City and County of Swansea between 1995 and 2003 and Chair of the Welsh Consumer Council between 2003 and 2008. Vivienne is a also a Consultant to Government and Local Government.
The Rev. Hywel Davies
Hywel is the Manager for Tearfund Wales and the Minister of Capel Cildwrn in Llangefni, Anglesey. For the last six years he has been the Chair of Menter Môn, the Anglesey Regeneration and Enterprise Agency. As Vice Chair for the Anglesey Local Health Board he has served the Board as Chair both of the Audit and the Commissioning Committee and is the Board’s Corporate Health Champion.
Hywel is also a member of the Sports Council for Wales, Audit and Community Participation Committee, a member of the North Wales Court Board and Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales.
Dr Kevin Fitzpatrick
Dr Fitzpatrick has a PhD in Philosophy. He was appointed Disability Rights Commissioner for Wales at its inception in 2000, staying in this role with the DRC until it ended in 2007. Kevin Fitzpatrick is the Managing Director of Inclusion21. He is also a non-executive member of the Welsh Ambulance Services Trust and Chairs the board of trustees of an adoption agency, and is a member of the board of trustees of Arts Care Cymru.
Dr Malcolm Smith
Dr Malcolm Smith is a freelance writer on wildlife, environment and travel. He is a Member of the Board of The Environment Agency taking particular responsibility for Wales issues, and he chairs the Agency’s Water and Flood Risk Board Advisory Group. He was also a Council Member for the Welsh Consumer Council for 4 years.
Bob Chapman Esq.
Bob Chapman is a management consultant working primarily in the legal and advice sector. This follows thirty five years working in the advice sector for Citizens Advice Bureaux, local authority Welfare Rights Units and most recently for the Legal Services Commission where he went to plan and implement the Community Legal Service in Wales. Bob took early retirement in 2007 from the post of Acting Wales Director of the Legal Services Commission where he had been responsible for the delivery of legal aid across the whole of Wales.
Eifion Pritchard QPM
Eifion joined the Denbighshire Constabulary in 1961 and was appointed Assistant Chief Constable of Dyfed Powys Police where he remained until retiring as the Deputy Chief Constable in 1998.
On retirement he was appointed chair of the Wales Ambulance Service and then became chair of Postwatch Wales. He was also a Council Member for the Welsh Consumer Council for 4 years.
Professor Marcus Longley
Professor Marcus Longley worked for two years with the Welsh Health Planning Forum, before being appointed Associate Director of the Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care, University of Glamorgan, at its inception in October 1995. He was appointed to a personal Chair at the University in 2006. He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal Colleges of Physicians, and a Non-Executive Director and Trustee of Play Wales/Chwarae Cymru. He was also a Council Member for the Welsh Consumer Council for 4 years.
Professor John Williams
John is a Professor of Law at Aberystwyth University. He is a member of the Standing Committee Legal Wales and the CAFCASS Cymru Advisory Committee. He is also a trustee of Help the Aged UK and CAB Cymru. He was a Council Member for the Welsh Consumer Council for 4 years.