Anneliese Dodds was first elected in 2017 as the Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament for Oxford East. She was re-elected at the 2024 General Election with a majority of 14,465.
Anneliese served as the Minister for International Development and the Minister for Women and Equalities until February 2025. Before the 2024 General Election, she 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 received a damehood in the 2026 New Year’s Honours List.
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.