Rona Mackay
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Rona Mackay | |
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| Member of the Scottish Parliament for Strathkelvin and Bearsden | |
| In office 5 May 2016 – 9 April 2026 | |
| Preceded by | Fiona McLeod |
| Succeeded by | TBD |
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| Party | Scottish National Party |
| Website | www |
Rona Mackay is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who served as the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Strathkelvin and Bearsden from 2016 to 2026.
Press coverage locates Mackay’s roots in East Dunbartonshire, where she is routinely described as the local MSP for Kirkintilloch and its surrounds.[1]
Before entering politics, she spent more than two decades as a journalist on Scottish national newspapers and as a columnist for Independence magazine.[2]
From 2010 to 2016 she sat on the Children's Panel for the East End of Glasgow.[3]
In 2001 she was a co-ordinator of Chernobyl Children's Lifeline, a charity which brought children from Belarus who were affected by the nuclear disaster to Scotland to improve their health.
