Brian Griffiths, Baron Griffiths of Fforestfach

Brian Griffiths, Baron Griffiths of Fforestfach (born 27 December 1941), is a British Conservative politician.

For the crossbench peer, see Hugh Griffiths, Baron Griffiths. For the Labour peer, see Leslie John Griffiths, Baron Griffiths of Burry Port.

The Right Honourable

The Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
5 February 1991
Life peerage
Personal details
Born (1941-12-27) 27 December 1941
NationalityBritish
EducationDynevor School, Swansea
London School of Economics
OccupationPolitician, banker

Biography

Early life

Brian Griffiths was born on 27 December 1941. He was educated Dynevor School, Swansea, and the London School of Economics.

Career

He was an Adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. In 1986, while Dean of the City University Business School, he resigned his chair to become her chief policy adviser.[1]

He was created a life peer as Baron Griffiths, of Fforestfach in the County of West Glamorgan on 5 February 1991.[2]

He was Chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies from 1991 to 2001. He served on the Board of Directors of the Conservative Christian Fellowship from 2000 to 2002. He was a member of the European Union Sub-Committee F (Social Affairs, Education and Home Affairs) from 1999 to 2003 and the Religious Offences Committee from 2002 to 2003. He is a Vice-President of the Nature in Art Trust.[3]

He serves as Vice-Chairman of Goldman Sachs International. He said he was “not ashamed” of the bank's compensation plans. He also said the issue of banking compensation should not be thought about solely from a short-term perspective. He defended the bank's bonuses, Griffiths said the general public should “tolerate the inequality as a way to achieve greater prosperity for all”, saying also that “we should not ... be ashamed of offering compensation in an internationally competitive market which ensures the bank businesses here and employs British people”.[4]

1MDB Scandal

In August 2019 Griffiths was criminally charged with defrauding the Malaysian government for his alleged role in the 1MDB scandal.[5] If convicted, he could be sentenced to up to 10 years in jail.[6]

gollark: ```console=tty0 console=ttyS0,921600n1 vmalloc=400M slub_debug=OFZPU page_owner=on swiotlb=noforce androidboot.hardware=mt6765 maxcpus=8 loop.max_part=7 firmware_class.path=/vendor/firmware has_battery_removed=0 androidboot.boot_devices=bootdevice,11230000.mmc root=/dev/ram androidboot.verifiedbootstate=orange bootopt=64S3,32N2,64N2 androidboot.selinux=permissive buildvariant=eng androidboot.meta_log_disable=0 lpddr_used_index=2 prize_ddr_hardinfo= hall_up_cali_data=-16-16-16 hall_down_cali_data=-16-16-16 printk.disable_uart=1 bootprof.pl_t=4627 bootprof.lk_t=6878 bootprof.logo_t=619 androidboot.serialno=3082SH1001014876 androidboot.bootreason=kernel_panic gpt=1 usb2jtag_mode=0 mrdump_ddrsv=yes mrdump_cb=0x10e800,0x1400 androidboot.dtb_idx=0 androidboot.dtbo_idx=0```The kernel command line is quite something.
gollark: Based on the unhelpfulness of the internet I *may* actually have managed to create an entirely new class of horrible Android issue.
gollark: I also seem to not have blkid or lsblk.
gollark: Oh, correction, every *five* seconds.
gollark: ```03-01 21:54:43.706 492 492 F libc : Fatal signal 11 (SIGSEGV), code 1 (SEGV_MAPERR), fault addr 0x0 in tid 492 (recovery), pid 492 (recovery)03-01 21:54:43.707 494 494 F libc : failed to exec crash_dump helper: No such file or directory03-01 21:54:43.708 492 492 F libc : crash_dump helper failed to exec03-01 21:54:48.709 496 496 W libc : Unable to set property "ro.twrp.boot" to "1": error code: 0xb03-01 21:54:48.710 496 496 W libc : Unable to set property "ro.twrp.version" to "3.4.0-TEST_MRMAZAK_10": error code: 0xb03-01 21:54:48.711 496 496 F libc : Fatal signal 11 (SIGSEGV), code 1 (SEGV_MAPERR), fault addr 0x0 in tid 496 (recovery), pid 496 (recovery)03-01 21:54:48.714 498 498 F libc : failed to exec crash_dump helper: No such file or directory03-01 21:54:48.715 496 496 F libc : crash_dump helper failed to exec03-01 21:54:53.721 499 499 W libc : Unable to set property "ro.twrp.boot" to "1": error code: 0xb03-01 21:54:53.721 499 499 W libc : Unable to set property "ro.twrp.version" to "3.4.0-TEST_MRMAZAK_10": error code: 0xb03-01 21:54:53.722 499 499 F libc : Fatal signal 11 (SIGSEGV), code 1 (SEGV_MAPERR), fault addr 0x0 in tid 499 (recovery), pid 499 (recovery)03-01 21:54:53.724 501 501 F libc : failed to exec crash_dump helper: No such file or directory03-01 21:54:53.725 499 499 F libc : crash_dump helper failed to exec```It seems to log this every few times a second, how amazing!

References
  1. "A history of City University London".
  2. "No. 52444". The London Gazette. 8 February 1991. p. 2061.
  3. "Nature in Art - Trust". Nature in Art Trust. Archived from the original on 9 May 2010. Retrieved 23 March 2010.
  4. James Quinn and James Hall, "Goldman Sachs vice-chairman says: 'Learn to tolerate inequality'", The Telegraph, 21 October 2009.
  5. "Malaysia charges Goldman Sachs executives over 1MDB scandal". Financial Times. 9 August 2019.
  6. "1MDB: AGC files additional charges against 17 individuals". Bernama. 9 August 2019.

Arms
Coat of arms of Brian Griffiths, Baron Griffiths of Fforestfach
Adopted
2007
Coronet
Coronet of a Baron
Crest
Upon a Helm with a Wreath Argent and Vert a Bear sejant erect Gules holding in the dexter forepaw a Leek proper
Escutcheon
Paly of four Vert and Argent per fess enhanced indented of two points upwards each point double barbed throughout issuing in base a pile double barbed throughout all counterchanged
Supporters
On either side statant upon a Stack of two closed Books Vert garnished Or a Male Gryphon reguardant Gules beaked forelegged and rayed Or
Motto
OFN YR ARGLWYDD Y DYW DOETHINEB
Symbolism
Green and white are the ancient Welsh livery colours. The paly formation is arranged to suggest spruce clad mountains and hence an allusion to Fforestfach which means ‘fair forest'. Further puns are provided by the bear for Brian and the gryphons for Griffiths.


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