Eluned Morgan (AC 83-85) was elected to the European Parliament in 1994, as the Labour member for Mid & West Wales and was subsequently re-elected in 1999 and 2004 as MEP for Wales.

After graduating from Atlantic College she studied at the University of Hull. Eluned formerly worked as a researcher for S4C, and the BBC, and in 1990 worked as a Stagiaire in the European Parliament. She was the youngest MEP when she took up her seat in 1994.

Eluned is a member of the European Parliament's Industry, Research and Energy Committee and has been chosen to produce the Parliament's response to the European Commission's energy green paper. She takes particular interest in EU science policy and the implementation of EU directives.

Eluned is also a substitute member of the Budgetary Control Committee and the Regional Committee. She is Founder and Chair of the Labour Party's Cymdeithas Cledwyn which facilitates the use of the Welsh language in the Labour Party, and was also, until recently, a member of the Council of Foundation of the International Baccalaureate.

Eluned has recently produced a parliamentary report on the subject of 'Information Society - Culture and Education', together with a very well received paper on 'European Youth Unemployment - A Comparative Study'. She has also published papers on 'Pensions Across Europe' and 'Minority Languages in the EU'.