About Andrew

Andrew Davies, elected as the Assembly Member for Swansea West in May 1999, served as a Minister in the Welsh Assembly Government Cabinet for 10 years following the Assembly's inception. He was the first Minister for Assembly Business or Trefnydd from 1999 - 2002 and until 2007 he held the position of Minister for Economic Development & Transport in Rhodri Morgan's Cabinet in the Assembly Government. From 2007 until December 2009 he was Minister for Finance and Public Service Delivery.

Andrew graduated from Swansea University where he also trained as a teacher. He is a qualified counsellor and has lectured extensively in further, higher and continuing education. With a background and experience in education and training, politics and the private sector he has a detailed knowledge of the Welsh economy. He headed up the Ford Motor Company's Employee Development & Assistance Programme in the early 1990s and was also Associate Director of a public affairs company.

Andrew was a prominent member of the 'Yes for Wales' Campaign and co-ordinator of Labour's Assembly referendum campaign in 1997. He was a regional official with the Wales Labour Party in the 1980s and a former member of the Wales Labour Party Executive Committee. He is a member of the Union, UNITE.

His political interests include devolution, public service delivery & innovation, economic development, contemporary arts and Wales' place in the world.

Born in 1952 in Hereford of Welsh parents, his mother was born in Llandeilo and his father in Holywell in Flintshire.