Peredur Owen Griffiths Explained

Peredur Owen Griffiths
Honorific-Suffix:MS
Office:Member of the Senedd
for South Wales East
Term Start:8 May 2021
Birth Date:1978[1]
Nationality:Welsh
Party:Plaid Cymru
Education:University of Sheffield
Occupation:Politician • Charity Worker
Website:https://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

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.

Political career

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. 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.

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

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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Peredur Owen GRIFFITHS personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK.
  2. Web site: Peredur Owen Griffiths MS . 2024-05-29 . senedd.wales . en-GB.
  3. Web site: Mosalski . Ruth . 2019-10-30 . The General Election candidates in Blaenau Gwent . 2023-05-27 . WalesOnline . en.
  4. News: 8 May 2021 . Welsh election results 2021: Mark Drakeford set to stay as first minister . BBC News . 8 May 2021.
  5. Web site: Haines . Chris . 2024-05-17 . Cross-party calls for Palestine to be officially recognised . 2024-05-29 . Caerphilly Observer . en-GB.