Eluned Morgan 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.

Born in 1967, she was educated at Atlantic College and 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, Environment Committee and temporary Climate Change Committee. She was chosen to produce the Parliament's response to the European Commission's energy green paper and is currently preparing the Parliament's response to the Commission's proposed electricity directive. She takes particular interest in energy issues, climate change, EU science policy and the implementation of EU directives.

Eluned has 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'.

Eluned is Founder and Chair of the Labour Party's Cymdeithas Cledwyn. She  was a member of the National Assembly Advisory Group (NAAG), a body which was set up to determine the standing orders and procedures of the National Assembly for Wales, in time for its opening in the summer of 1999.

She is a member of Amicus, the European Movement, Amnesty International and the Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign. She is a patron of the Cartrefi Cymru charity and a fellow of Trinity College, Carmarthen.