My first memories of the NLC are from the 1980s and I have been a member since the 2000s. I’m the founder and CEO of a City public and regulatory affairs consultancy, having begun my career in public policy as a parliamentary adviser to Vince Cable when he was an MP. Much of my varied career was spent in London until I founded my firm which is now based in Carmarthen.
For those like me, without a fixed base in London, the NLC is a haven and a home from home, with huge opportunities to foster an expanded country membership among the burgeoning remote working community.
A local councillor and campaigner, I’m active in my local community in West Wales, living on the family smallholding in Carmarthenshire with my wife, Genevieve, where I practice the fine Gladstonian tradition of tree-felling and tree planting both to keep fit and keep our home carbon neutral. (Havard rejoined the NLC in 2013 and was elected to the Members’ Council in 2023.)
