Suzy Davies (born 3 January) is a Welsh Conservative Party politician, who served as a Member of the Senedd (MS) for South Wales West from 2011 to 2021.
[4] Prior to her election as an Assembly Member in 2011, Davies contested UK parliamentary seats twice for the Welsh Conservative Party.
[6][7] This followed up on the work she did as the Conservative candidate for Brecon and Radnorshire at the 2007 National Assembly for Wales election where she finished second behind Liberal Democrats incumbent Kirsty Williams but with a 3.7% increase in the vote share.
[11] She has also campaigned with the British Heart Foundation to make the teaching of CPR a mandatory element of the secondary school curriculum.
[14] In June 2020, in her role as Shadow Minister for Education, Davies called on Welsh Government to delay the implementation of their new school curriculum.
"[20] During her campaign she also questioned the structure of the Welsh Conservatives, saying that the party needed to "catch up with devolution" and "give transparency and more power to members.
"[23] Four months after the 2021 Senedd election Davies was appointed Chair of Wales Tourism Alliance (WTA),[24] an organisation which provides a "collective voice to put forward the views of the industry to Welsh Government and beyond."
[30] Prior to her involvement in politics she had, in 1989, been a founding board member of the Welsh International Film Festival with Iris Prize Director Berwyn Rowlands[31] and had also previously worked in marketing and management at Swansea Grand Theatre[32] and in cultural roles in Mid Wales in both Newtown and at Aberystwyth Arts Centre.