National Assembly for Wales
Video Biography – Text Version | Huw Lewis AM
My name's Huw Lewis. I'm the Assembly Member for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney. I was born and brought up in the village of Aberfan in the Merthyr Valley and at the age of 18 went off to Edinburgh University where I studied Chemistry. After that I became a teacher in various schools in Scotland and then back home in Wales, eventually ending up in my old school of Afon Taff, again in the Merthyr Valley.
After that my career took a completely different turn I moved on to become the Assistant General Secretary of the Labour Party in Wales which essentially meant that I was in charge of organisational matter, particularly as they related to elections. That included, incidentally, the 'Labour Yes Vote' for the referendum campaign that lead to the creation of the National Assembly itself. I've been involved with devolution all that time and I'm very proud to represent my home community here in the National Assembly.
My job at the moment is very much to speak up for that community - a community with longstanding problems regarding the decline of heavy industry and so on, which we are still dealing with after these years, particularly since the mid eighties when the coal industry collapsed. I suppose the kernel of my job, the centre point of it all is to make sure that that community which has had very many blows aimed at it, gets its fair share from the resources that the Assembly and other arms of government are able to provide.
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