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Peredur Owen Griffiths
Welsh politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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
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