Professor Thomas Glyn Watkin
Professor Thomas Glyn Watkin was born in the village of Cwmparc in the Rhondda in 1952. He was educated at the Rhondda County Grammar School for Boys in Porth, before studying Law at Pembroke College, Oxford, where he was Oades and Stafford Scholar (1971-1974). He obtained the degrees of BA (1974), BCL (1975) and MA (1977) from the University of Oxford and was called to the bar by the Middle Temple (1976).
From 1975 until 2004, he was successively lecturer, senior lecturer, reader and professor in the Law School at the University of Wales, Cardiff, as well as acting as Legal Assistant to the Governing Body of the Church in Wales from 1981 until 1998, with responsibility for drafting bilingual bills and amendments to the Church’s constitution.
He was appointed foundation Professor of Law at Bangor in 2004. In April 2007, he returned to Cardiff to become First Welsh Legislative Counsel, the legal officer principally responsible for drafting the legislative programme of the Welsh Assembly Government under the new powers conferred upon the National Assembly of Wales by the Government of Wales Act 2006.
He has since been appointed an Honorary Professor at Bangor Law School. An ordained priest within the Church in Wales, he is married with one daughter.
