Jonathan Glyn Mathias, known as Glyn Mathias, is a British print and broadcasting journalist of over thirty years" standing.
Background
Mathias was born on 19 February 1945, and is one of three children of the writer and poet Roland Mathias (1915–2007) and Mary Annie (Molly) Hawes. He moved around the country as he grew up, as his father (a teacher at the time) taught in places including Carlisle, London, and Pembroke.
Education
Mathias was educated at Llandovery College, a boarding independent school in the market town of Llandovery in Carmarthenshire, in south-west Wales, followed by Jesus College at the University of Oxford and the University of Southampton.
Career
He was a lobby correspondent at Westminster for thirteen years, and is the former Political Editor of Independent Television News (1981–1986) and British Broadcasting Corporation Wales (1994–1999). Mathias started as a reporter on the South Wales Echo in 1967, before joining British Broadcasting Corporation Southampton in 1970. He joined Independent Television News, becoming ITN Political Correspondent in 1973 and ITN Home Affairs Correspondent in 1979.
In 1981, Mathias became ITN Political Editor, replacing Julian Haviland, and became ITN"s Controller of Public Affairs and Chief Political Correspondent in 1986.
As Commissioner, he launched a campaign to try to persuade more people to vote in the Welsh Assembly elections. The Mathias Review made a series of detailed recommendations to that education
In the same year, he became Chair of the New Welsh Review. They have a daughter Hannah, and live in the market town of Brecon in Powys, in mid-Wales.
Politics
From 1994 to 1999, Mathias was Political Editor of British Broadcasting Corporation Wales, and in 2001, he became an inaugural member of the Electoral Commission, serving as the Commissioner for Wales from 2001 to 2008. In March 2011, he was appointed by Carl Sargeant (Minister for Social Justice and Local Government in the Welsh Government) to review the programme of work of the Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales, prior to the 2016 local government elections.
Membership
He was the Electoral Commission"s Commissioner for Wales (2001–2008), and as of 2013 is a member of OFCOM"s Content Board and Chair of OFCOM"s Advisory Committee for Wales. He has also been a director of Autism Cymru, The Beacons Trust and Brecon Action Limited. In 2011, Mathias became Chair of OFCOM"s Advisory Committee for Wales and a member of the OFCOM Content Board.