Nazanin Afshin-Jam
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Nazanin Afshin-Jam (Persian:نازنین افشین جم, born 11 April 1979 in Tehran, Iran)<ref name = NSB>National Speakers Bureau. Nazanin Afshin-Jam - Summary Profile. Retrieved on: 2012-01-04.</ref> is an Iranian-Canadian model, singer, songwriter, author, public speaker and human rights activist. She is a former Miss World Canada and Miss World first runner-up, and has been an advocate for human rights in her role as president and co-founder of Stop Child Executions.<ref name = NSB/> She immigrated to Canada with her family in 1981. She is the wife of Peter MacKay, Canada's Minister of National Defence.<ref>CBC News (January 4, 2012). Peter MacKay weds former beauty queen. Retrieved on: 2012-01-04.</ref>