Rhys David is a former senior writer and editor with the Financial Times. An Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Welsh Affairs (IWA) where he served from 2002-2008 as associate director, he is the author of Tell Mum Not to Worry: A Welsh Soldier’s War in the Near East 1915-1919 ISBN 978-0-9930982-0-8. He is a Council Member of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, a Life Fellow of the RSA, and a committee member of WNO Friends, in Cardiff.

He writes regularly on Wales, regional economic and other issues for the IWA’s website ClickonWales and blogs at http://www.rhysdavid.blog He has spoken regularly on World War One in the Near East.

A selection of his writings can also be found at http://www.clippings.me/rhysdavid