Peredur Owen Griffiths

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Peredur Owen Griffiths
MS
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Griffiths in 2021
Member of the Senedd
for South Wales East
Assumed office
8 May 2021
Personal details
Born1978 (age 4647) [1]
NationalityWelsh
Political party Plaid Cymru
Education University of Sheffield
OccupationPolitician and charity worker
Website https://senedd.wales/people/peredur-owen-griffiths-ms/

Peredur Owen Griffiths (born 1978) is a Welsh Plaid Cymru politician who has been Member of the Senedd (MS) for the South Wales East region since 2021.

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Education

Griffths attended Ysgol Glan Clwyd. [2] He has a master's degree in control systems engineering from the University of Sheffield.

Career

Prior to his political career, Griffiths worked in banking. He was a bank manager for Santander before working for the Principality Building Society. He worked in the financial services sector for 13 years. [2]

He later worked for Christian Aid as Regional Co-ordinator for South Wales, and Legacy Officer for Wales. [2]

Political career

Peredur previously ran in the Blaenau Gwent constituency at the 2019 United Kingdom general election. [3]

Griffiths is Member of the Senedd (MS) for the South Wales East region since the 2021 Senedd election. [4]

Griffiths is chair of the Senedd Finance Committee, and a member of the Llywydd's Committee, Petitions Committee, and Standards of Conduct Committee. [2] He chairs the cross-party group on Substance Use and Addiction, is vice-chair of the group on Intergenerational Solidarity and member of groups on: Children in our Care, Co-operatives and Mutuals, Coeliac Disease & Dermatitis Herpetiformis, Deaf Issues, Diabetes, Disability, Friends of Ukraine, Gambling Related Harm, Hospice and Palliative Care, Housing, Industrial Communities, Music, Older People and Aging, Policing and Public Transport. [2]

In 2024, Griffiths tabled a motion, co-signed by Welsh Labour's John Griffiths, the Welsh Liberal Democrats' Jane Dodds and Welsh Conservatives' Darren Millar supporting recognition of a Palestinian State as a path to a Two-state solution. [5]

Music

He is a member of the Welsh language choir, Cor CF1, and has been Chair of International Choral Festival Wales. [3]

References

  1. "Peredur Owen GRIFFITHS personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK".
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Peredur Owen Griffiths MS". senedd.wales. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
  3. 1 2 Mosalski, Ruth (30 October 2019). "The General Election candidates in Blaenau Gwent". WalesOnline. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
  4. "Welsh election results 2021: Mark Drakeford set to stay as first minister". BBC News. 8 May 2021. Retrieved 8 May 2021.
  5. Haines, Chris (17 May 2024). "Cross-party calls for Palestine to be officially recognised". Caerphilly Observer. Retrieved 29 May 2024.