Gwenllian Lansdown

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 sits on various government-sponsored committees in a number of policy fields. In 2019, she joined the Board of Trustees at the National Library of Wales. She also serves as Responsible Individual at her local Cylch Meithrin in a voluntary capacity.