Anneliese Dodds

Anneliese Jane Dodds (born 16 March 1978) is a British Labour Party politician who was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Oxford East in 2017. She was formerly a Member of the European Parliament for the South East England region from 2014–2017.

Early life
Dodds was born in Aberdeen, Scotland and moved to South East England in 1996 where she studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She graduated from Oxford with a first-class degree, and subsequently read for a Master's degree in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh, followed by a PhD in Government at the London School of Economics.

Political career
Dodds unsuccessfully campaigned for the constituency of Billericay at the 2005 general election and the constituency of Reading East at the 2010 general election. She was also unsuccessful in the 2006 Oxford City council elections for the ward of Holywell.

Dodds was elected as a Member of the European Parliament for the South East England region in 2014. In the European Parliament, Dodds sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.

As of May 2017, she is a Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Aston University, Birmingham.

Dodds was elected as the Member of Parliament for Oxford East at the 2017 snap general election. On 3 July 2017, Dodds was appointed as a Shadow Treasury Minister by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.