Dafydd Trystan Davies

{{Short description|Welsh politician (born 1974)}}

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Dafydd Trystan Davies (born 11 August 1974[https://archive.today/20141011191848/http://www.aberdareonline.co.uk/content/dafydd-trystan-davies-plaid-candidate-cynon-valley-0 Aberdare Online – DAFYDD TRYSTAN DAVIES Plaid candidate Cynon Valley, 5 May 2010]) is a Welsh academic and politician, who was chair of Plaid Cymru from 2013[http://www.partyofwales.org/news/2013/10/12/dafydd-trystan-davies-is-the-new-plaid-cymru-chair/ Plaid Cymru official website: "Dafydd Trystan Davies is the new Plaid Cymru chair", 12 October 2013] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140422031104/http://www.partyofwales.org/news/2013/10/12/dafydd-trystan-davies-is-the-new-plaid-cymru-chair/ |date=22 April 2014 }}. Accessed 15 October 2013 until 2019, when he was replaced by Alun Ffred Jones.{{cite web|url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/new-chair-plaid-cymru-announced-17037588|title=New chair of Plaid Cymru is announced|website=WalesOnline|date=5 October 2019|author=Ruth Mosalski|access-date=12 March 2021}} Trystan is currently the Senior Academic Manager and Registrar for Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol.{{Cite web|url=http://www.colegcymraeg.ac.uk/en/aboutus/whatisthecoleg/contactus/|title=Contact Us}}

Dafydd Trystan Davies was born in Aberdare and now lives in Grangetown, Cardiff. He studied at Ysgol Rhydfelen and at Aberystwyth University, gaining a doctorate for his work on Globalisation and the Welsh economy.[http://www.aberdareonline.co.uk/content/dafydd-trystan-davies-new-plaid-cymru-chair Aberdare Online, 14 October 2013] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017001404/http://www.aberdareonline.co.uk/content/dafydd-trystan-davies-new-plaid-cymru-chair# |date=2013-10-17 }}. Accessed 15 October 2013

Davies was Plaid's parliamentary candidate for the Cynon Valley constituency at the 2010 general election, and was the party's candidate for the Welsh Assembly for the same constituency in 2011.[http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/dr-dafydd-trystan-davies-selected-1897306 Wales Online, "Dr Dafydd Trystan Davies selected as Cynon Valley’s Plaid Cymru candidate in next year’s Welsh Assembly elections", 16 September 2010]. Accessed 15 October 2013 In July 2013 he was selected as Plaid's Welsh Assembly candidate for the Cardiff South and Penarth seat, for the elections in 2016,[http://penarthnews.wordpress.com/2013/07/26/plaids-dr-dafydd-trystan-davies-to-fight-labours-vaughan-gething-for-penarth-assembly-seat/ "PLAID’S DR DAFYDD TRYSTAN DAVIES TO FIGHT LABOUR’S VAUGHAN GETHING FOR PENARTH ASSEMBLY SEAT", Penarth News, 26 July 2013]. Accessed 15 October 2013 where he came third with 14.3% of the votes.

Davies succeeded Helen Mary Jones in the position of chair at the annual conference of Plaid Cymru in October 2013.