Education
He was educated at Ardwyn Grammar School and at King"s College London (Bachelor of Science, Doctor of Philosophy).
He was educated at Ardwyn Grammar School and at King"s College London (Bachelor of Science, Doctor of Philosophy).
Doctor ap Gwilym is a Deputy Chairman of the Principality Building Society, Wales" biggest mutual society. He is also a director of Nemo Personal Finance Limited and Loan Link Limited and Chairman of the Trustees of the Society"s Pension Scheme. His other directorships include Director of iSOFT Group plc, National Cadet Corps Group plc and Pure Wafer PLC
Plaid recently dropped its opposition to sending members to the House of Lords in response to constitutional changes that give the second chamber the power to veto law-making proposals put forward by the National Assembly for Wales.
Businessman Eurfyl ap Gwilym, who costed last year’s Plaid election manifesto and is a former national chairman of the party, will be a candidate for a seat in the Lords.
Foreign many years he has advocated a revision of the Barnett formula, which determines how much money Wales receives from the Treasury. He argues that if a new formula based on need was introduced, Wales would be entitled to hundreds of millions of pounds extra a year.
Doctor ap Gwilym"s public profile rose further after an interview with Jeremy Paxman on the British Broadcasting Corporation current affairs programme, Newsnight. In the interview Doctor ap Gwilym challenged Paxman on a variety of economic figures, telling him to "do your homework" when those figures weren"t readily available.
A recording of the interview received over 90,000 hits on YouTube within the first few days of release and a Facebook group set up in deference to Doctor ap Gwilym received over 1,200 supporters in the same period.
He is an economics expert who is a longstanding adviser to Plaid Cymru, and who has become the first candidate from the party to formally announce his candidacy for a peerage.
Doctor ap Gwilym has been a member of Plaid Cymru since 1963.