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Peredur Owen Griffiths

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Peredur Owen Griffiths
Griffiths in 2021
Member of the Senedd
for South Wales East
Assumed office
8 May 2021
Personal details
Born1978[1]
NationalityWelsh
Political partyPlaid Cymru
EducationUniversity of Sheffield
OccupationPolitician • Charity Worker
Websitehttps://senedd.wales/people/peredur-owen-griffiths-ms/

Peredur Owen Griffiths is a Welsh Plaid Cymru politician serving as Member of the Senedd (MS) for the South Wales East region since 2021.

Career

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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

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

Griffiths currently serves as 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]

Personal life and education

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He studied a Masters in Control Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield.

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

References

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  1. ^ "Peredur Owen GRIFFITHS personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK".
  2. ^ a b c d "Peredur Owen Griffiths MS". senedd.wales. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
  3. ^ a b 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.