Dafydd Trystan Davies (born 11 August 1974) is a Welsh academic and politician, who was chair of

Plaid Cymru Plaid Cymru ( ; , ; officially Plaid Cymru – the Party of Wales, and often referred to simply as Plaid) is a centre-left, Welsh nationalist list of political parties in Wales, political party in Wales, committed to Welsh independence from th ...

from 2013 until 2019, when he was replaced by

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. Trystan is currently the Senior Academic Manager and Registrar for

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. Dafydd Trystan Davies was born in

Aberdare Aberdare ( ; ) is a town in the Cynon Valley area of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, at the confluence of the Rivers Dare (Dâr) and River Cynon, Cynon. Aberdare has a population of 39,550 (mid-2017 estimate). Aberdare is south-west of Merthyr Tydf ...

and now lives in Grangetown,

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. He studied at Ysgol Rhydfelen and at

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, gaining a doctorate for his work on

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and the Welsh economy. Davies was Plaid's

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for the Cynon Valley constituency at the 2010 general election, and was the party's candidate for the

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for the same constituency in

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. In July 2013 he was selected as Plaid's Welsh Assembly candidate for the Cardiff South and Penarth seat, for the elections in 2016,"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 Helen Mary Jones (born 29 June 1960) is a Welsh Plaid Cymru politician, who was a member of the Senedd from 1999 to 2011 and again from 2018 to 2021. Background Jones was born in Colchester, Essex. She was educated at Colchester County High Sc ...

in the position of chair at the annual conference of Plaid Cymru in October 2013.

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