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Glenys Kinnock MEP, Labour party spokesperson on international development and patron of the Burma Campaign.

Glenys was elected to the European Parliament in 1994 and re-elected in 1999 and 2004. She now represents the whole of Wales and is a Member of the European Parliament's Development and Co-operation Committee.

She is Co-President of the African, Caribbean and Pacific / EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and Labour Party spokesperson on International Development in the European Parliament.  Among her special interests are international development, children's rights, education, human rights, gender issues, disability rights, ethical business and fairtrade.

Glenys founded and is President of One World Action, the Development NGO. She is a Board Member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, a Patron of the Burma Campaign and a Council Member of Voluntary Service Overseas.

Mrs Kinnock is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, she is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Wales College Newport, the University of Wales Bangor and holds Honorary Doctorates from Thames Valley University, Brunel University and Kingston University.