1. Anneliese Jane Dodds was born on 16 March 1978 and is a British Labour and Co-operative politician and public policy analyst who served as Minister of State for Development and Minister of State for Women and Equalities from July 2024 to February 2025.
Anneliese Dodds previously served as Chair of the Labour Party from 2021 to 2024.
Anneliese Dodds was Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from April 2020 to May 2021, the first woman to hold the position, and Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities from 2021 to 2024.
Anneliese Dodds 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 lectured in Public Policy at King's College London and Aston University.
Anneliese Dodds was elected to the European Parliament at the 2014 European Parliament election.
Anneliese Dodds resigned her South East England seat when she was elected to the House of Commons at the 2017 general election.
Anneliese Dodds served in the Shadow Treasury Team of Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell as Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 2017 to 2020.
Anneliese Dodds was demoted from the role in a reshuffle after the 2021 local elections, and appointed Chair of the Party and Policy Review.
Anneliese Dodds gained the additional Shadow Women and Equalities Secretary brief in September 2021, following Marsha de Cordova's resignation.
Anneliese Dodds was born in Aberdeen, Scotland and was educated at Dunnottar Primary School in Stonehaven and the private co-educational day school Robert Gordon's College in Aberdeen.
Anneliese Dodds then studied philosophy, politics and economics at St Hilda's College, Oxford.
Anneliese Dodds took part in protests against the introduction of tuition fees in 2000 and in support of LGBT rights.
Anneliese Dodds later studied for a master's degree in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh, and a PhD in government at the London School of Economics, where she completed a thesis on liberalisation in higher education in France and the UK in 2006.
Anneliese Dodds had her postdoctoral fellowship at the LSE funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
Anneliese Dodds was a lecturer in Public Policy at King's College London from 2007 to 2010 and a senior lecturer in Public Policy at Aston University from 2010 to 2014.
Anneliese Dodds was unsuccessful in the 2006 Oxford City council elections for the ward of Holywell.
Anneliese Dodds was elected as a Member of the European Parliament for the South East England region in 2014.
Anneliese Dodds was vice-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Whistleblowing from 2018 to 2019.
On 5 April 2020, Anneliese Dodds was appointed Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer by the newly elected Labour leader Keir Starmer, becoming the first woman to hold this position.
Anneliese Dodds was then given a role previously held by Deputy Leader Angela Rayner as the party's chair.
Anneliese Dodds became Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities in September 2021, following the resignation of previous office holder Marsha de Cordova.
In June 2024, Anneliese Dodds was reselected as the Labour candidate for Oxford East at the 2024 general election.
In July 2024, Anneliese Dodds was appointed International Development Minister and Women and Equalities Minister.
Anneliese Dodds argued that the move would "remove food and healthcare from desperate people - deeply harming the UK's reputation".
Anneliese Dodds described the problem of climate change as a "climate 'emergency'", and wanted to see "far more radical change" to protect against the risks of climate change, suggesting several actions that could help do so, such as banning domestic flights, making it easier to build wind farms, and increased investment in green technology.
At protests on 23 February 2024, a fundraising event for Anneliese Dodds was gate-crashed by both Palestinian activists and members of Just Stop Oil.
Anneliese Dodds was received by the British High Commissioner Fiona Ritchie before flying on to Zambia.
Anneliese Dodds was sworn of the Privy Council on 10 July 2024, entitling her to be styled "The Right Honourable" for life.