The 67-year-old former Midland Bank Corporate Director (Wales) ended a 19-year association with the WRU in 2003 when he stepped down as chairman of both the WRU and Millennium Stadium plc. The Union's Honorary Treasurer from 1985, he became chairman of the WRU in 1997 and the Millennium Stadium in 1996. Currently President of Ogmore Vale RFC he has represented the WRU on the IRB, Five Nations and Four Home Unions committees and been a board member Rugby Cup Ltd. He was a trustee of the Rugby Charitable Trust between 1985 and 2003.

Mr Griffiths announced his intention to step down as WRU President in August 2007 due to family commitments.

Gethin beat the only other Presidential candidate, former Wales and British and Irish Lions fullback JPR Williams, to the post that Glanmor Griffiths had vacated, choosing not to stand for re-election himself. Gethin became a Welsh Secondary Schools International in 1963 and won two rugby Blues at Cambridge in 1965 and 1966. He played his club rugby as a fullback for Seven Sisters, Swansea, Neath, Cardiff and Glamorgan Wanderers.

After his retirement from the game he became Secretary and later Chairman of the Welsh Academicals and is now a Life Vice President of the club. He was Secretary of the Welsh Rugby Union for five years from March 1998 to December 2002. A qualified solicitor, during his career Gethin moved from private practice to local government where he rose to become Chief Executive of Taff Ely Borough Council from 1982 until his retirement in 1996. He is currently a member of the Audience Council for the BBC in Wales.