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Penny Wong

Politician

Penny Wong is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Penny Wong · Penny Wongová · Пенни Вонг · Пенні Вонг · Փենի Վոնգ · 8 more...				[sources]
Alias	Penelope Wong · Penelope Ying-Yen Wong · Senator the Hon Penny Wong · Wong Yingyen · Wong, Penny · 5 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	黃英賢				[sources]
Birth date	1968-11-05				[sources]
Place of birth	Kota Kinabalu				[sources]
Gender	female				[sources]
Nationality	Australia				[sources]
Country	Australia				[sources]
Citizenship	Australia · Malaysia				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	Penelope · Penny				[sources]
Last name	Wong				[sources]
Political association	Australian Labor Party · Australian Labor Party (South Australian Branch)				[sources]
Title	Her Excellency				[sources]
Website	www.pennywong.com.au · twitter.com · www.pennywong.com.au				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q456759				[sources]
Position	Minister for Finance (Australia) (2010-2013) · Minister for Foreign Affairs · Minister for Foreign Affairs (Australia) (2022-) · Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Commonwealth of Australia · Minister for the Environment · 6 more...				[sources]
Education	University of Adelaide · University of South Australia				[sources]
Religion	Christianity				[sources]
Source link	www.cia.gov				[sources]
Last change	2026-02-15	Last processed	2026-02-15	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Australian politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Senate	2004-10-09	2007-11-24

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons271,310

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories339,199

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

UN Heads of State, Heads of Government and Ministers for Foreign Affairs1,072

The UN's list of senior government officials in all of its member states.

DGACM

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,633

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

US CIA World Leaders10,958

An index of most national-level cabinet members in world governments that is publicly maintained by the CIA.

United States · CIA

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions505,060

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata326,240

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: unprot-c34502f2d85bd18e1d6075bfe328a093d0c5bff4 · evpo-824ec8ce-676f-45fa-ace6-73503dd0ff20 · unprot-030c0f779d605b1ba9fc158f35c1b5c25755c7af · us-cia-australia-penny-wong-minister-for-foreign-affairs · unprot-68f49e3f55a281c04c3746c77dffb46cedf6c54c

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