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High-profile New Zealand Labour Party MP Georgina Beyer is representing her government at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference in London and Edinburgh September 20-29.
Ms Beyer, the world's first transgender MP, chairs the Parliamentary Labour Party's primary production caucus committee and is a member of the House of Representatives primary production and local government and environment select committees.
She also represents the Labour Party on the all-party committee reviewing New Zealand's mixed-member proportional representation electoral system.
Ms Beyer, 42, represents Wairarapa, a predominantly rural constituency, which she won from the conservative National Party at last year's general election.
She is a former mayor of Carterton, which has links with Carterton in Oxfordshire, and was on the council of Local Government New Zealand, which represents the country's local authorities.
Ms Beyer, who was an actress and worked in radio and television before entering politics, is a member of Te Atiawa Maori tribe.
Her grandfather, Lieutenant-Colonel George Bertrand, after whom she is named, was second-in-command of New Zealand's Maori Battalion in World War II.
Ms Beyer, who has been an active campaigner opposed to discrimination against minority groups, is a former board member of the New Zealand Aids Foundation.
After attending the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference, Ms Beyer will be an adviser in the New Zealand delegation at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Ms Beyer can be contacted in London at the Meridian Grosvener House Hotel and in Edinburgh at the Balmoral Hotel or through the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (phone 20-7799-1460).
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