Laura McAllister,
Professor of Governance, University of Liverpool's School of Management

A former Wales football international and national team captain with 24 caps, Laura was a Board Member of UK Sport from 2002-5. She has been a member of the Sports Council for Wales since April 2006 and was appointed Vice Chair of the Council in March 2007. Laura chairs the Council's Corporate Services Committee and is a Board Member and Trustee of the Welsh Football Trust. She is project sponsor for CPD and for sport at the University of Liverpool, and chairs the Sport Liverpool Strategy Group. She is also a member of the judging panel for BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year. Laura's principal academic interests centre on public administration and politics. She has written extensively on these areas. Recent books include Plaid Cymru, The Emergence of a Political Party (2001), Women and Constitutional Politics in Wales (2007), and a forthcoming biography of Lord Dafydd Elis Thomas, Presiding Officer at the National Assembly (2010). She is a visiting Professor at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia and the China National School of Administration, Beijing. Laura has worked as a political analyst for BBC Wales and is a regular commentator on Welsh and British politics and elections.

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