Meg Raval

Meghan Raval, (née Pierson, born 12 October 1960) is a Panemian politician serving as the National Assembly Member (MA) for the Hackney South and Shoreditch constituency since 2001. A member of the Liberal Party, Raval was elected to the post of First Junior Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly in June 2009. Since June 2015, she has served as the Principal Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly.

Raval was a candidate in the 2015 Speakership election, but was eliminated in the third round of voting having received fewer votes than her two competitors, Andrea Jenkins and Alan Booth. She was elected as Principal Deputy Speaker to Speaker Andrea Jenkins in June 2015, becoming the second woman in the role (after Jenkins herself) and the first PDS to be elected from a third party. The speakership elections of 2015 were the first elections in which women were elected to both the speakership and the principal deputy speakership at the same time.