Eluned Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Ely

Key ambitions in the publication include raising Wales’ profile on the international stage; economic growth through exports and inward investment and establishing Wales as a globally responsible nation.

Morgan contested the 2018 Welsh Labour Party leadership election.

In November 2017, Eluned was appointed Minister for Welsh Language and Lifelong Learning. On 13 December 2018 she was appointed Minister for International Relations and the Welsh Language.

Achievements include the Welsh Government's Employability Plan, launched by Morgan in March 2018 to tackle economic activity and the development of the first International Strategy for Wales (2020), which outlines a strategic direction and focus for the nation in a post-Brexit landscape.

In November 2017 she was appointed Minister for Welsh Language and Lifelong Learning. Morgan became the Minister for International Relations and the Welsh Language in December 2018.

In 2015 Morgan was selected as a candidate for the 2016 Welsh election on the Mid and West Wales regional list. On 5 May 2016 she was elected from the regional list as an Assembly Member in the Senedd Cymru.

From 2013 -2016 Eluned served as the Shadow Minister for Wales in the House of Lords, and from 2014-2016 she served as Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and also as a whip. She was granted a peerage in 2011 and is formally known as Baroness Morgan of Ely. Eluned was responsible for leading for Labour in the Lords on the EU Referendum Bill and led for Labour on two Wales Bills.

On 19 November 2010 it was announced that Morgan had been granted a life peerage and would sit on the Labour benches of the House of Lords, and was gazetted on 27 January 2011 as Baroness Morgan of Ely, of Ely in the City of Cardiff.

From late 2009 until July 2013 she worked as the Director of National Business Development in Wales for SSE (SWALEC) one of the UK's largest energy companies. She was responsible for the establishment of the SWALEC Smart Energy Centre in Treforest. She was also appointed as the Chair of the Cardiff Business Partnership.

She stood down at the 2009 European Parliament elections.

On leaving the Parliament she worked as the Director of National Development for SSE in Wales (SWALEC) from 2009 to June 2013 where she was responsible for establishing the new SWALEC Smart Energy Centre in Treforest. She was appointed Chair of the Cardiff Business Partnership.

In 2007, she nominated Peter Hain as a candidate for Deputy Leader of the UK Labour Party.

She is a former Member of the European Parliament who represented Wales for the Labour Party from 1994–2009. In this role she became the Labour spokesperson on industry, science and energy and spokesperson for the 200 strong Socialist Group on Budget Control matters. She authored the Green Paper on energy on behalf of the EP and led the Parliament's discussions on the Electricity Directive where she ensured new rights for consumers and demanded that Member States of the EU addressed the issue of fuel poverty.

Her political career started at the age of 27 when she was elected as the youngest Member of the European Parliament in 1994. She was only the fifth woman elected to a full-time political position in the history of Wales, and the first full-time politician in Wales to have a baby whilst in office. Initially she represented the constituency of Mid and West Wales, and was subsequently re-elected in 1999 and 2004 under the new proportional representation system representing the whole of Wales.

In 1994 Morgan was elected as a Member of the European Parliament representing Mid and West Wales. At the time she was the youngest MEP when she took up her seat. She continued as an MEP representing the Wales being elected at both the 1999 and 2005 elections.

In 1990 she worked as a stagiaire in the European Parliament for the Socialist Group.

Mair Eluned Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Ely (born 16 February 1967), is a Labour Member of the Senedd in the Senedd and the Welsh Government Minister for International Relations and the Welsh Language.