Mary Metcalfe (née Poole; born 9 November 1954) is a South African politician, educator, and academic who served in the Executive Council of Gauteng from 1994 to 2004.
A member of the African National Congress, she was Gauteng's inaugural Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Education from 1994 to 1999 and then became MEC for Agriculture, Conservation and Environment and Land Affairs from 1999 to 2004.
[7] In May 2004, following the 2004 general election, she was not reappointed to the Executive Council but became Deputy Speaker of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature.
[4][6] In May 2011, she moved to the Development Bank of Southern Africa,[4] before returning to academia at the University of Johannesburg.
[4] In 2018, she was appointed to a four-year term on the council of Umalusi, the public education standards board of South Africa,[8] and in December 2021 she was appointed as a Commissioner at the National Planning Commission under Chairperson Mondli Gungubele.