Ann Black is a British political activist who serves as a member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Labour Party. She served from 2000 to 2018 and was re-elected in November 2020. She was chair of the NEC from 2009 to 2010, and has also served as chair of the NEC's disputes panel. Career In 2013, Black worked as a computer programmer at Oxford Brookes University. She is a member of the Unison trade union. Political career Labour in government, 2000–2010 Black was first elected to the Labour Party's National Executive Committee (NEC) as a representative for Constituency Labour Party groups (CLPs) in 2000. At the time, she was campaigning for pensions to be linked to earnings instead of prices. In September 2002, Black wrote a paper for the committee expressing concern about the invading Iraq. In 2003, she wrote a statement encouraging the government to hold a referendum on introducing the Euro. Later that year, she voted in favour of readmitting the mayor of London Ken Livingstone to the Labour Party after he had been expelled for running for election against a Labour candidate in the 2000 London mayoral election, but against using the selection method a Labour incumbent official would go through. In 2004, she wrote to the Labour leader and prime minister Tony Blair opposing his invitation of Ayad Allawi, the prime minister of Iraq, saying that "most people want to put Iraq behind them and unite around Labour's positive domestic agenda". She spoke out against the Labour government's plans to introduce ID cards in 2005. She was re-elected a CLP representative in 2006. In 2009, she served as vice-chair of the NEC. In the same year, she was one of three members of a panel of NEC members that investigated allegations against Labour MPs in the United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal. In 2010, she was chair of the NEC. Labour in opposition, 2010–present In the 2010 Labour Party leadership election, Black urged Labour Members of Parliament to nominate candidates they might not go on to vote for in order to provide a more diverse range of candidates, which was seen as support for nominating Diane Abbott. When determining the rules for the 2015 Labour Party leadership election, Black opposed checking new members against the party's canvassing records. In the election, she was reported as having voted for Jeremy Corbyn. Later that year, she worked