Anna Dixon Explained

Anna Dixon
Constituency Mp:Shipley
Parliament:United Kingdom
Majority:8,603 (17.8%)[1]
Predecessor:Philip Davies
Term Start:4 July 2024
Party:Labour
Alma Mater:Trinity Hall, Cambridge
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
London School of Economics

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Shipley General Election 2024 . 5 July 2024 . Sky News.
  2. News: Shipley - General election results 2024 . 2024-07-14 . BBC News . en-GB.
  3. https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-dixon-8aa56655/ "Anna Dixon"
  4. "Cambridge Tripos results", The Times, 17 July 1992, p. 41.
  5. Web site: The King's Fund's Anna Dixon to join Department of Health . GOV.UK . 5 July 2024 . en . 21 February 2013.
  6. Web site: Dr Anna Dixon recognised in New Year's Honours List 2021 . Centre for Ageing Better . 5 July 2024 . en . 30 December 2020.
  7. Web site: Meek . Natasha . Labour party chooses MP candidate for next general election . Bradford Telegraph and Argus . 5 July 2024 . 1 August 2022.
  8. Book: Dixon . Anna . The Age of Ageing Better? A Manifesto For Our Future . 2020 . Bloomsbury . 9781472960733.