Glenys Kinnock

Born in 1944, Glenys Kinnock has a background as a teacher in secondary, primary, infant and nursery schools. Glenys was elected to the European Parliament in 1994 and re-elected in 1999 and 2004. She now represents Wales and is a Member of the European Parliament Development and Co-operation Committee and a Substitute Member of the Foreign Affairs, Human Rights and Security Committee. She is Co-President of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and Labour Party Spokesperson for International Development in the European Parliament Mrs Kinnock is President of One World Action, the Development NGO. She is also Patron of the Drop the Debt Campaign, Vice President of Parliamentarians for Global Action, Board Member International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, Board Member World Parliamentarian Magazine and a Council Member of Voluntary Service Overseas. Mrs Kinnock is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an Honorary Fellow of the University of Wales College Bangor and University of Wales College Newport and holds Honorary Doctorates from Thames Valley University, Brunel University and Kingston University. Glenys married the Rt. Hon Neil Kinnock in 1967 and they have two children and three grandchildren.

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