Goudie, Baroness Mary

Baroness Goudie has been a Member of the House of Lords since 1998 when she was appointed a life peer. She has held senior positions in the Parliamentary Labour Party in the House of Lords and is a senior member of the British/Irish Inter-Parliamentary Committee in the House of Lords and a former member of the Communications Committee, the Procedures Committee and the European Committee on Law and the Constitution. At present she is a member of the Tax Law Rewrite Committee and member of the Committee of Selection. The Baroness is Vice Chair of All-Party Identity Fraud Committee and led the campaign for ratification of the United Nations’ Treaty on Human Trafficking and a subsequent Treaty of the Council of Europe on Human Trafficking. She is Chair of the Women Leaders’ Council to Fight Human Trafficking at UN.Gift. She launched the global initiative to fight human trafficking in March 2007 and continues to lead this campaign. Baroness Goudie is involved with the G8 and G20 promoting the role of women and children in the global economy.