Jeremy Miles

Jeremy Miles AM is the Welsh Labour and Co-operative Party Assembly Member in the National Assembly for Wales for Neath. Early lifeHe was born and brought up in Pontarddulais near Swansea, south Wales and as a native Welsh speaker, was educated at a bilingual comprehensive school - Ysgol Gyfun Ystalyfera in the Swansea Valley. He graduated from New College, Oxford University, where he read law. After graduating, he taught law at the Centre for English Legal Studies, Warsaw University. He returned to the UK and practised as a solicitor in London initially, and then held senior legal and commercial posts in media sector businesses including ITV and with the US television network and film studio, NBC Universal, based in London. He stood unsuccessfully as the Labour candidate in the safe Conservative seat of Beaconsfield at the 2010 general election. After returning to live in South Wales, he set up his own business affairs consultancy working with international clients in the broadcast and digital sectors. He narrowly missed being selected as the Parliamentary candidate for the safe Labour seat of Aberavon for the 2015 general election, being beaten by Stephen Kinnock by one vote. Assembly Member for NeathFollowing the announcement by Gwenda Thomas, Assembly Member for Neath that she was planning to stand down at the National Assembly for Wales election, 2016, he was selected to stand as the Labour and Co-operative candidate in Neath constituency in October 2015, following a twinned selection process with Gower constituency.

Jeremy Miles AM is the Welsh Labour and Co-operative Party Assembly Member in the National Assembly for Wales for Neath. Early lifeHe was born and brought up in Pontarddulais near Swansea, south Wales and as a native Welsh speaker, was educated at a bilingual comprehensive school - Ysgol Gyfun Ystalyfera in the Swansea Valley. He graduated from New College, Oxford University, where he read law. After graduating, he taught law at the Centre for English Legal Studies, Warsaw University. He returned to the UK and practised as a solicitor in London initially, and then held senior legal and commercial posts in media sector businesses including ITV and with the US television network and film studio, NBC Universal, based in London. He stood unsuccessfully as the Labour candidate in the safe Conservative seat of Beaconsfield at the 2010 general election. After returning to live in South Wales, he set up his own business affairs consultancy working with international clients in the broadcast and digital sectors. He narrowly missed being selected as the Parliamentary candidate for the safe Labour seat of Aberavon for the 2015 general election, being beaten by Stephen Kinnock by one vote. Assembly Member for NeathFollowing the announcement by Gwenda Thomas, Assembly Member for Neath that she was planning to stand down at the National Assembly for Wales election, 2016, he was selected to stand as the Labour and Co-operative candidate in Neath constituency in October 2015, following a twinned selection process with Gower constituency.