Eluned Morgan

The Right Honourable The Baroness Morgan of Ely PC MS
Morgan in 2024
First Minister of Wales
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 August 2024
Monarch	Charles III
Deputy	Huw Irranca-Davies
Preceded by	Vaughan Gething
Leader of Welsh Labour
Incumbent
Assumed office 24 July 2024
Deputy	Carolyn Harris
Preceded by	Vaughan Gething
Ministerial offices Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care[a] In office 13 May 2021 – 6 August 2024 First Minister Mark Drakeford Vaughan Gething Preceded by Vaughan Gething Succeeded by Mark Drakeford Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing In office 8 October 2020 – 13 May 2021 First Minister Mark Drakeford Preceded by Office established Succeeded by Lynne Neagle Minister for the Welsh Language[b] In office 3 November 2017 – 13 May 2021 First Minister Carwyn Jones Mark Drakeford Preceded by Alun Davies Succeeded by Jeremy Miles
Member of the Senedd for Mid and West Wales
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 May 2016
Preceded by	Rebecca Evans
Parliamentary offices Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal Life peerage 26 January 2011 Member of the European Parliament for Wales In office 10 June 1999 – 4 June 2009 Preceded by Position established Succeeded by John Bufton Member of the European Parliament for Mid and West Wales In office 9 June 1994 – 10 June 1999 Preceded by David Morris Succeeded by Seat abolished
Personal details
Born	Mair Eluned Morgan (1967-02-16) 16 February 1967 (age 57) Cardiff, Wales
Political party	Labour
Spouse	Rhys Jenkins
Children	2
Parent	Bob Morgan (father)
Alma mater	University of Hull
Website	www.elunedmorgan.wales

Mair Eluned Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Ely, PC (born 16 February 1967), is a Welsh Labour politician who has served as First Minister of Wales and Leader of Welsh Labour since 2024.^[1] She previously served as Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care in the Welsh Government from 2021 to 2024.^[a][2][3]

Morgan has been a Member of the House of Lords since 2011 and has served as a Member of the Senedd (MS) since 2016. She is a Welsh speaker^[4] and was Minister for the Welsh Language from 2017 to 2021, Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing from 2020 to 2021, and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1994 to 2009.

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