Jonathan Glyn Mathias, OBE (born 19 February 1945)[1] is a British print and broadcasting journalist of over thirty years' standing.
He was a lobby correspondent at Westminster for thirteen years, and is the former Political Editor of Independent Television News (1981–1986) and BBC Wales (1994–1999).
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.
[1] Mathias started as a reporter on the South Wales Echo in 1967, before joining BBC Southampton in 1970.
[8] As Commissioner, he launched a campaign to try to persuade more people to vote in the Welsh Assembly elections.