Anneliese Dodds

Anneliese Jane Dodds (born 16 March 1978) is a British Labour and Co-operative politician and public policy analyst. She has been Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, and Chair of the Labour Party since 2021. She was Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from April 2020 to May 2021, the first woman to hold the position. She has been Member of Parliament for Oxford East since 2017 and was a Member of the European Parliament for South East England from 2014 to 2017.

Anneliese Dodds MP
Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities
Incumbent
Assumed office 21 September 2021
Leader	Keir Starmer
Preceded by	Marsha de Cordova
Chair of the Labour Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 May 2021
Leader	Keir Starmer
Preceded by	Angela Rayner
Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
In office 5 April 2020 – 9 May 2021
Leader	Keir Starmer
Preceded by	John McDonnell
Succeeded by	Rachel Reeves
Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury
In office 3 July 2017 – 5 April 2020
Leader	Jeremy Corbyn
Preceded by	Peter Dowd
Succeeded by	Dan Carden
Member of Parliament for Oxford East
Incumbent
Assumed office 8 June 2017
Preceded by	Andrew Smith
Majority	17,832 (36.1%)
Member of the European Parliament for South East England
In office 1 July 2014 – 8 June 2017
Preceded by	Peter Skinner
Succeeded by	John Howarth
Personal details
Born	(1978-03-16) 16 March 1978 Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Political party	Labour and Co-operative
Education	St. Hilda's College, Oxford (BA) University of Edinburgh (MA) London School of Economics (PhD)
Website	Official website

Born in Aberdeen and privately educated at Robert Gordon's College, Dodds read Philosophy, Politics and Economics as an undergraduate at St Hilda's College, Oxford and subsequently took a master's degree in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in Government at the London School of Economics. She lectured in Public Policy at King’s College London and Aston University. After joining the Labour Party, she unsuccessfully contested Billericay at the 2005 general election and Reading East at the 2010 general election.[1]

She was elected to the European Parliament at the 2014 European Parliament election. She resigned her South East England seat when she was elected to the House of Commons at the 2017 general election. She served John McDonnell as Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 2017 to 2020. In this role, she supported calls for a confirmatory referendum on Britain's withdrawal from the European Union. In April 2020, she was appointed Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer by Keir Starmer. She was demoted after the 2021 local elections, and appointed Chair of the Party and Policy Review. She gained the additional Shadow Women and Equalities Secretary brief in September 2021, following Marsha de Cordova's resignation.[2]

She was president of Oxford University Student Union in 1999.[3]