Maggie Chapman
| Maggie Chapman | |
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| Co-convenor of the Scottish Green Party | |
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Assumed office November 2013 Serving with Patrick Harvie |
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| Preceded by | Martha Wardrop |
| Councillor, The City of Edinburgh Council | |
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In office 3 May 2007 – June 2015 |
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| Constituency | Leith Walk |
| Lord Rector of the University of Aberdeen | |
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Assumed office April 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Maitland Mackie |
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27 June 1979 Salisbury, Zimbabwe Rhodesia |
| Political party | Scottish Green Party |
| Alma mater |
University of Edinburgh Stirling University |
| Profession | Charity worker Lecturer |
| Website | maggiechapman |
Maggie Chapman (born 1979) is a Scottish politician who is the co-convenor of the Scottish Green Party (with Patrick Harvie).
She was a councillor for the Leith Walk ward of the City of Edinburgh Council from 2007–2015 and represented the Scottish Greens on the Smith Commission for further devolution of powers to the Scottish Parliament.
Chapman is the Rector of the University of Aberdeen, having been elected in 2014.
Chapman was born in 1979 in Rhodesia. Her family had moved from South Africa to Rhodesia in 1978 for her father to take up the post of director at the college of music. She grew up there, educated at a mixed-race school, with the country having achieved independence while she was an infant. Her mother was a nurse who worked as a theatre sister and delivered babies.
Chapman moved to Scotland to study Zoology at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 2001. She went on to complete a Master's degree in Environmental Management at the University of Stirling in 2003, then returned to Edinburgh University to study for a PhD in Geography. As a student she had been an activist for Edinburgh University Students' Association.
Chapman has worked in the west of Scotland in Environmental Management, and as a community carer throughout Edinburgh.
Until June 2015 she was a lecturer in cultural geography, environmental ethics and social justice at Edinburgh Napier University. She retains a role in teaching through her support for the Educational Institute of Scotland.
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