Meg Munn
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Member of Parliament for Sheffield Heeley |
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In office 7 June 2001 – 30 March 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Bill Michie |
| Succeeded by | Louise Haigh |
| Majority | 5,807 (14.2%) |
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24 August 1959 Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour Co-operative |
| Spouse(s) | Dennis Bates |
| Alma mater | University of Nottingham, University of York, Open University |
Margaret Patricia Munn (born 1959) is a non-executive director of the Phone-paid Services Authority, a non-executive director of the Esh Group and a Governor of Sheffield Hallam University. She encourages 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).
She also works as a professional governance consultant with a focus on parliamentary processes, political party development, gender mainstreaming and women's leadership. She works with organisations such as the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Global Partners Governance, Inter-Parliamentary Union, United Nations Development Programme, 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).
Munn was the British Member of Parliament 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.
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