Gwenllian Lansdown
Welsh chief executive and former councillor (born 1979)
Gwenllian Lansdown Davies (born 1979) is a former Welsh Plaid Cymru politician, a former County Councillor for Riverside, and Chief Executive of Plaid Cymru between 2007 and 2011. She was previously the Chief Executive of Mudiad Ysgolion Meithrin (the "Nursery Schools Movement"). Since 2025 she is the Chief Executive of Dysgu.
Background
Lansdown-Davies was born in St Asaph, grew up in Bangor, Gwynedd and was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she was an exhibitioner. In 2001, she was awarded her BA (Hons) in Modern Languages (French and Spanish). She later studied at Cardiff University for a Master of Sciences in economics and later a PhD in Political Theory researching liberalism, communitarianism and multiculturalism. Her title of her PhD was 'From Community to Pluralism: Liberalism and Nationalism in Wales'. She worked as a tutor in Politics during research for her PhD.
She has 4 children and lives in Llanerfyl, Powys.
Political career
Vice-President of Union whilst at College and Chair of Plaid Cymru Student Federation in 2003, Lansdown's political interests include community development, international relations and the environment.
Lansdown was elected as County Borough Councillor on the Cardiff County Council on 10 June 2004, for the Riverside Electoral Division.
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