Meg Munn

rdf:langString Meg Munn

rdf:langString Meg Munn

rdf:langString Meg Munn

rdf:langString Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

rdf:langString Munn as a Foreign Office minister

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rdf:langString Dennis Bates

rdf:langString Member of Parliament for Sheffield Heeley

rdf:langString Margaret Patricia Munn (born 1959) is the first Independent Chair of the Church of England’s National Safeguarding Panel,ProChancellor and Deputy Chair of the Board of Governors of Sheffield Hallam University, Chair of the British Council's Society Advisory Group and Non-Executive Director of the Phone-paid Services Authority. She was a Non-Executive Director of the Esh Group (2015-18). She is also an international governance consultant with a focus on parliamentary processes, political party development, gender mainstreaming and women's leadership. She works with organisations such as Global Partners Governance, Inter-Parliamentary Union, United Nations Development Programme, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, UN Women, the Kenya Women Parliamentarians’ Association (KEWOPA) and the Iraq Foundation to support democracy building in a number of countries. She was Lead drafter for the Compendium of Good Practises for Advancing Women's Political Participation in the OSCE Region, Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (2016). She supports women to consider non-traditional careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), and construction. She is Patron of the Women's Engineering Society and has edited Building the future: women in construction, Smith Institute (2014) and Unlocking Potential: perspectives on women in science, engineering & technology, Smith Institute (2011). Munn was the British MP for Sheffield Heeley from 2001 to 2015. On 24 January 2014 she advised Heeley Constituency Labour Party that she had decided not to seek reselection to stand at the 2015 general election.