Peredur Owen Griffiths | |
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![]() Griffiths in 2021 | |
Member of the Senedd for South Wales East | |
Assumed office 8 May 2021 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 1978 [1] |
Nationality | Welsh |
Political 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.
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]
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]
He studied a Masters in Control Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield.