Alun Davies (politician)
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Alun Davies AM |
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| Member of the Welsh Assembly for Blaenau Gwent |
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Assumed office 5 May 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Trish Law |
| Majority | 650 (3.1%) |
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12 February 1964 Tredegar, Monmouthshire, Wales |
| Political party | Welsh Labour & Co-operative |
| Alma mater | University of Wales, Aberystwyth |
| Occupation | Public affairs consultant, businessman & politician |
| Website | Welsh Labour |
Thomas Alun Rhys Davies (born 12 February 1964) is a Welsh Labour Co-operative politician. After beginning his political career in Plaid Cymru he later joined the Labour Party. He has been a member of the National Assembly for Wales since 2007, initially representing the Mid and West Wales region and since 2011 his home seat of Blaenau Gwent. He is a former Welsh public affairs consultant.
Davies was born in Tredegar and went to Tredegar Comprehensive School followed by the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth where he read Politics. He was involved in student politics at the time and was elected President of National Union of Students Wales. He first worked as a campaigner on environmental issues for the World Wide Fund for Nature, and later as a poverty campaigner for Oxfam during which time he visited Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia.
Davies worked as public and corporate affairs manager for Hyder which combined Wales' main utilities; he specialised in its capital investment programme. He subsequently transferred to be Head of Public Affairs at the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, and later became Director of Corporate Affairs for Welsh language television station S4C. In 2004 he started Bute Communications, his own public affairs consultancy.
Davies stood as a Plaid-Green Alliance candidate for the Blaenau Gwent parliamentary seat in 1992.
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