Anneliese Dodds

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Anneliese Dodds (2020)

Anneliese Jane Dodds (born March 16, 1978 in Aberdeen ) is a British political scientist and politician from Labor and the Co-operative Party .

Education and academic career

Dodds began in 1996 a degree in philosophy, politics and economics at St Hilda's College of Oxford University , she in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts finished. This was followed by a Master of Research degree in Social Policy from the University of Edinburgh in 2002 , and in 2006 she received a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics in Governance. PhD . Here she also began teaching as a lecturer in public policy , before moving to Aston University in Birmingham in 2010 in the same position .

politics

First attempts to gain a foothold as a politician were unsuccessful: she ran unsuccessfully in May 2005 in Billericay and in May 2010 in Reading East for a seat in the House of Commons and in the local elections in May 2006 in Holywell for the City Council of Oxford . Finally, in May 2014 , she managed to move into the European Parliament , where she represented the constituency of South East England until 2017 . She chaired the delegation for the EU-Montenegro Stabilization and Association Parliamentary Committee and was a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs .

In the early general election in June 2017 , she was finally able to prevail in the constituency of Oxford East . She succeeded her party colleague Andrew Smith , who had not run again. Her successor at the European Parliament in Brussels was John Howarth . In July 2017 she was appointed to the extended shadow cabinet by opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn . There she was, alongside Lyn Brown and Clive Lewis , as State Secretary ( English Minister ) responsible for the Treasury .

With the election of a new leader of the Labor Party and the formation of the shadow cabinet in April 2020, Dodds was appointed Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Announcement on the occasion of her election to the European Parliament on the website of St Hilda's College ( Memento of May 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  2. ↑ Scientific career up to the election to the European Parliament on the website of Aston University ( Memento from May 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  3. ↑ Election Results - Oxford City Council All Wards on the Oxford City Council website, PDF file, 18.3 kB, accessed December 3, 2018
  4. ↑ Election 2017: Which MPs are standing down, and who might be standing? BBC , May 2, 2017, accessed December 4, 2018. (English)
  5. ^ John Howarth, on the East Sussex Administration website , accessed December 4, 2018.
  6. ↑ Her Majesty's Official Opposition on the UK Government website, accessed December 3, 2018; Filter there for “Department and Shadow Ministers” and press the “Go” button.
  7. ↑ Who is the new shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds? BBC, April 6, 2020, accessed April 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Dodds, Anneliese
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dodds, Anneliese Jane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Labor Party and Co-operative Party politician, MEP and MP
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Aberdeen