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Mark Williams

Politician · Counter-sanctioned entity

Mark Williams is subject to counter-sanctions. Counter-sanctions are designations imposed by countries with weak democratic institutions. They are often punitive responses to foreign sanctions, or can be used to suppress domestic political opposition. See the individual program listings below. They are also a politically exposed person.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Mark Fraser Williams · Mark Williams · Марк Уильямс · مارك وليامز · মার্ক উইলিয়ামস · 2 more...				[sources]
Alias	Марк Уильямс · مارك وليامز · 馬克·威廉斯 · 마크 프레이저 윌리엄스				[sources]
Birth date	1966-03-24				[sources]
Place of birth	Hertfordshire				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United Kingdom				[sources]
Country	United Kingdom				[sources]
Citizenship	United Kingdom				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Mark				[sources]
Last name	Williams				[sources]
Political association	Welsh Liberal Democrats				[sources]
Website	facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q266357				[sources]
Position	Former Member of the British Parliament · House of Commons (member, 2005-2010) · House of Commons (member, 2010-2015) · House of Commons (member, 2015-2017) · Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats (2016-) · 3 more...				[sources]
Education	Aberystwyth University · Richard Hale School · University of Plymouth				[sources]
Religion	Anglicanism				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-15	Last processed	2026-01-16	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

British politician, born 1966

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
Iran	Iran Ministry of Foreign Affairs		-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the 54th Parliament of the United Kingdom	2005-05-05	2010-04-12

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,022

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,648

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Iran Sanctions List405

Individuals and entities in the sanctions list of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Iran · MFA

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,728

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions540,381

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata335,233

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: ir-san-bd34573e6a39ca7928561a415bcbecfeb770b787 · evpo-09c9fd75-3e38-4bef-9518-9551f67019fe

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