Anneliese Dodds
Member of Parliament for Oxford East
Anneliese Dodds is the Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament for Oxford East, and was first elected in 2017. She was re-elected in the 2019 General Election with a majority of 17,832. Anneliese currently serves as Chair of the Labour Party and Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities. She previously served as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer between April 2020 and May 2021 and as a Shadow Treasury Minister between July 2017 and April 2020.
Anneliese lives on Rose Hill with her partner Ed and two children. Before being elected to Parliament, Anneliese represented Oxford from 2014 to 2017 as our MEP. In that role, Anneliese served on the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, focusing especially on clamping down on tax avoidance by big companies. She was also responsible for tightening rules on financial services, to help prevent any repeat of the global financial crisis. Before becoming an MEP, Anneliese worked for many years as an academic. She also chaired a local debt and welfare advice centre.