:Peredur Owen Griffiths
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Peredur Owen Griffiths (born 1978) 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.{{Cite web |title=Peredur Owen Griffiths MS |url=https://senedd.wales/people/peredur-owen-griffiths-ms/ |access-date=2024-05-29 |website=senedd.wales |language=en-GB}}
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.{{Cite web |last=Mosalski |first=Ruth |date=2019-10-30 |title=The General Election candidates in Blaenau Gwent |url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/blaenau-gwent-general-election-candidates-16891866 |access-date=2023-05-27 |website=WalesOnline |language=en}}
Griffiths currently serves as Member of the Senedd (MS) for the South Wales East region since the 2021 Senedd election.{{cite news |date=8 May 2021 |title=Welsh election results 2021: Mark Drakeford set to stay as first minister |agency=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-57031725 |access-date=8 May 2021}}
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.{{Cite web |last=Haines |first=Chris |date=2024-05-17 |title=Cross-party calls for Palestine to be officially recognised |url=https://caerphilly.observer/news/1039035/senedd-cross-party-calls-for-palestine-to-be-officially-recognised/ |access-date=2024-05-29 |website=Caerphilly Observer |language=en-GB}}
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.
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Category:Alumni of the University of Sheffield
Category:Plaid Cymru members of the Senedd
Category:Welsh-speaking politicians
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