Jill Evans
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Jill Evans MEP |
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Member of the European Parliament for Wales |
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Assumed office 10 June 1999 |
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| Preceded by | Position established |
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8 May 1959 Ystrad Rhondda, Glamorgan, Wales |
| Nationality | Welsh |
| Political party | Plaid Cymru |
| Spouse(s) | Syd Morgan |
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University of Wales, Aberystwyth Glamorgan University (now the University of South Wales) |
| Occupation | Member of the European Parliament |
| Website | http://www.jillevans.net/ |
Jill Evans (born 8 May 1959) is Plaid Cymru Member of the European Parliament for Wales and First Vice President of The Greens–European Free Alliance group - the fourth largest in the European Parliament. She was chair of CND Cymru and President of Plaid Cymru until the position was abolished in 2013.
In June 1999, she and fellow candidate Eurig Wyn were elected as the first MEPs in Plaid Cymru's history. She was re-elected to the European Parliament in 2009 and more recently in 2014. In the 2014-2019 parliament, Evans is the Vice-President of the EFA Group, and is a member of the Committee on Culture and Education. She deputises on the Transport and Tourism Committee. She is also a member of the Delegation for relations with Switzerland and Norway and to the EU-Iceland Joint Parliamentary Committee and the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee.
Evans was born in Ystrad Rhondda, Glamorgan. She was educated at Bodringallt Infants' and Junior schools, Ystrad, where her head-teacher was John Haydn Davies, conductor of Treorci Male Voice Choir. Evans later attended Tonypandy Grammar School, the University of Wales, Aberystwyth where she gained a BA, and the Polytechnic of Wales, Trefforest (now University of South Wales) where she earned an M.Phil. She speaks Welsh and English. She learned Welsh as a second language in Tonypandy GS from Penri Jones, now a Gwynedd county councillor.
Evans worked as a Research Assistant at the former Polytechnic of Wales where she also gained her M.Phil. degree. She later worked as public affairs officer for the National Federation of Women's Institutes in Wales for six years with the late Rhiannon Bevan. She continues to be an associate member of Glamorgan WI. Following her first election to public office, she took up the post of Wales Organiser for CHILD - the infertility support network.
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