Dr Anwen Elias Commissioner
Dr Anwen Elias is a member of the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales.
Dr. Anwen Elias is a Reader in Politics at the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University. Educated at Ysgol Dyffryn Teifi, Llandysul, she is a graduate of Cambridge University and the European University Institute, Florence, where she completed a PhD in Political and Social Science. Her research interests include comparative territorial and constitutional politics, political parties and deliberative democracy.
She is Co-Director of the Centre for Welsh Politics and Society and the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data, and is a member of the Editorial Board for the Institute of Welsh Affairs’s The Welsh Agenda current affairs magazine.
She has been a Visiting Fellow at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Catalonia and the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galicia.