Margaret Mensah-Williams

Margaret Mensah-Williams
MP
Mensah-Williams in 2017
Namibian ambassador to the United States
Assumed office
December 2020
Preceded byMonica Nashandi
Chairperson of the National Council
In office
8 December 2015 – 9 December 2019
Preceded byAsser Kuveri Kapere
Succeeded byBernard Sibalatani
Regional Councillor for the Khomasdal Constituency
In office
1998–2019
Preceded byKarel Persendt
Succeeded bySamuel Angolo
Personal details
Born
Margaret Natalie Mensah

(1961-12-25) 25 December 1961 (age 62)
Mariental, South West Africa (now Namibia)
NationalityNamibian
Political party SWAPO
Residence(s)1605 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.
Alma materEastern and Southern African Management Institute
OccupationTeacher
ProfessionPolitician
Diplomat
CommitteesChairperson of the National Council Standing Committee on Women Caucus

Margaret Natalie Mensah-Williams (born 25 December 1961) is a Namibian politician, diplomat, and prominent SWAPO member. She currently serves as Namibia's ambassador to the United States.

Mensah-Williams also served as a councillor of Windhoek's Khomasdal North constituency from 1998 until 2019, and from this position was elected to represent Khomas Region in the National Council, the upper house of the Namibian Parliament from 2015 to 2019. In the National Council she was elected deputy chairperson in 1998, and chairperson in 2015. She resigned from all regional representative positions prior to the 2019 Namibian general election in order to contest for a seat in the National Assembly, Namibia's lower house, and subsequently became a member of Parliament.


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