Joanne Marie Anderson was born on 7 January 1971 and is a British Labour Party politician who served as the second and final directly elected Mayor of Liverpool from 2021 to 2023.
15 Facts About Joanne Anderson
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Joanne Anderson previously served as the Liverpool City Councillor for the Princes Park ward from October 2019 to May 2021.
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Joanne Anderson has said that growing up under Margaret Thatcher's government made her feel like she was "at the bottom of the pile" and that she would not "amount to much".
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Joanne Anderson left school at 16 with no qualifications, but completed a degree in Business Studies as a mature student.
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Joanne Anderson completed a BA in business studies at Liverpool John Moores University between 1996 and 1999, and is currently completing an MBA at the same university.
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Joanne Anderson has had a career as an equality, diversity and inclusion practitioner and a business consultant.
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Joanne Anderson's worked as a civil servant for the Crown Prosecution Service for over a decade.
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Joanne Anderson worked as a business consultant and has worked as an advisor and a member of the board of trustees for various organisations, including Emmaus Merseyside, Merseyside Probation Service, and Merseyside Equality and Employment Law.
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Joanne Anderson launched the first Black-led social enterprise in Liverpool and after leaving politics, the first Black-led social traders network.
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Joanne Anderson became Labour's candidate for Mayor of Liverpool following the announcement by incumbent Mayor Joe Joanne Anderson that he would not run for re-election following his arrest in December 2020.
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Joanne Anderson became the party's candidate after the selection process re-opened and the three initial candidates were barred from running.
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The role of Mayor of Liverpool was abolished and in the 2023 Liverpool City Council election Joanne Anderson did not stand for election.
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Joanne Anderson described herself as a single mother of a teenage boy in 2018, and has said that she has faced bankruptcy twice.
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Joanne Anderson has called herself a "proud black, working-class Scouser who loves our city and its people".
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Joanne Anderson is a fan of City of Liverpool FC, citing her preference for the team over either of the city's two most famous teams because it is "community owned and operated" and represents unity within the city, in contrast to the rivalry between Liverpool and Everton.