Anna Dixon

Anna Dixon
MBE MP
Official portrait, 2024
Member of Parliament
for Shipley
Incumbent
Assumed office
4 July 2024
Preceded byPhilip Davies
Majority8,603 (17.8%)[1]
Personal details
Political partyLabour
Alma materTrinity Hall, Cambridge
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
London School of Economics
Websitehttps://www.annadixonmp.co.uk/

Anna Dixon is a British Labour Party politician who has been Member of Parliament for Shipley since 2024.[2]

Education and career

Dixon was educated at Ilkley Grammar School in West Yorkshire.[3] She then attended Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where she read social and political science, followed by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the London School of Economics, where she was awarded a PhD in social policy in 2007.[3][4]

Dixon worked as Director of Policy at the King's Fund, before becoming Director of Quality and Strategy and Chief Analyst at the Department of Health in 2013.[5]

In 2015 Dixon took a leadership role in the charity Centre for Ageing Better, work for which she was awarded an MBE in 2021.[6]

Dixon was selected as a Labour Party general election candidate for the Shipley constituency on 31 July 2022,[7] and ran in the 2024 general election, beating Conservative incumbent Philip Davies by 8,603 votes.[1]

Selected publications

  • The Age of Ageing Better? A Manifesto For Our Future (2020)[8]

References

  1. ^ a b "Shipley | General Election 2024". Sky News. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  2. ^ "Shipley - General election results 2024". BBC News. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Anna Dixon". LinkedIn. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
  4. ^ "Cambridge Tripos results", The Times, 17 July 1992, p. 41.
  5. ^ "The King's Fund's Anna Dixon to join Department of Health". GOV.UK. 21 February 2013. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  6. ^ "Dr Anna Dixon recognised in New Year's Honours List 2021". Centre for Ageing Better. 30 December 2020. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  7. ^ Meek, Natasha (1 August 2022). "Labour party chooses MP candidate for next general election". Bradford Telegraph and Argus. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  8. ^ Dixon, Anna (2020). The Age of Ageing Better? A Manifesto For Our Future. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781472960733.
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