HOWELLS, Kim Dr

Member for Pontypridd since 1989 by-election. Political career: Minister of State for Middle East Counter Terrorism and Counter Narcotics since 2005; Minister of State, Department of Education and Skills 2004-05; Minister of State, Department of Education 2003-04; Minister of State for the Middle East, Afghanistan and South Asia, FCO. Minister of State for Further and Higher Education, DfES 2004; Minister (Tourism and Broadcasting), Department of Culture, Media and Sport 2001-03; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Consumers and Corporate Affairs, Department of Trade and Industry 1998-2001; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Lifelong Learning, Department of Education and Employment 1997-98; Opposition Spokesman on Trade and Industry 1995; Labour Frontbench Spokesman on Home Affairs 1994-97; Labour Frontbench Spokesman on Foreign Affairs 1994; Opposition Spokesman on Home Affairs 1994-95. Special political interests: Culture, economy, education, foreign affairs. Profession/Trade: Freelance radio and television presenter and writer 1986-89; Research Officer and Newspaper Editor, NUM South Wales Area 1982-89; former Research Officer, University College Swansea 1979-82. Education: Mountain Ash Grammar School; Hornsey College of Art; Cambridge CAT, BA; Warwick University, PhD. Hobbies: Cinema, jazz, mountaineering, painting. b. 27 November 1946. Married with three children.