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Margaret Mensah-Williams

PEP · Politician

Margaret Mensah-Williams 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	Margaret Mensah-Williams · Margaret Mnsah -Williams · Mensah-Williams, Margaret Natalie				[sources]
Alias	Margaret Natalie Mensah-Williams				[sources]
Birth date	1961-12-25				[sources]
Place of birth	Windhoek				[sources]
Gender	female				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Namibia				[sources]
Citizenship	Namibia				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
Email	m.nakutwima@parliament.na				[sources]
First name	Margaret				[sources]
Last name	Mensah · Williams				[sources]
Political association	SWAPO Party				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q6759720				[sources]
Wikipedia Article	en.wikipedia.org				[sources]
Position	Ambassador to the US · Member of the National Assembly of Namibia · National Council (member, 2004-2010) · National Council (member, 2010-2015)				[sources]
Education	University of Cape Town				[sources]
Source link	www.cia.gov				[sources]
Last change	2026-04-12	Last processed	2026-04-27	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Namibian politician

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Ambassador to the US	-	-
Member of the National Assembly of Namibia

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons278,406

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories343,748

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,466

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 Leaders10,964

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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Wikidata331,707

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions519,926

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: us-cia-namibia-margaret-mensah-williams-ambassador-to-the-us · evpo-4a4c1eab-afa3-44f2-8a54-0aff96fd67d3

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