Anna Dixon

{{Infobox MP

| name = Anna Dixon

| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|MBE|MP}}

| image = Official portrait of Anna Dixon MP crop 2.jpg

| caption = Official portrait, 2024

| constituency_MP = Shipley

| parliament = United Kingdom

| majority = 8,603 (17.8%){{cite web |title=Shipley {{!}} General Election 2024 |url=https://election.news.sky.com/elections/general-election-2024/shipley-511 |access-date=5 July 2024 |website=Sky News}}

| predecessor = Philip Davies

| successor =

| term_start = 4 July 2024

| term_end =

| birth_date =

| party = Labour

| website = https://www.annadixonmp.co.uk/

| footnotes =

| 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.{{Cite news |title=Shipley - General election results 2024 |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/election/2024/uk/constituencies/E14001472 |access-date=2024-07-14 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}

Education and career

Dixon was educated at Ilkley Grammar School in West Yorkshire.[https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-dixon-8aa56655/ "Anna Dixon"]. LinkedIn. Retrieved 20 July 2024. 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."Cambridge Tripos results", The Times, 17 July 1992, p. 41.

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.{{cite web |title=The King's Fund's Anna Dixon to join Department of Health |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/the-king-s-fund-s-anna-dixon-to-join-department-of-health |website=GOV.UK |access-date=5 July 2024 |language=en |date=21 February 2013}}

In 2015 Dixon took a leadership role in the charity Centre for Ageing Better, work for which she was awarded an MBE in 2021.{{cite web |title=Dr Anna Dixon recognised in New Year's Honours List 2021 |url=https://ageing-better.org.uk/news/dr-anna-dixon-recognised-new-years-honours-list-2021 |website=Centre for Ageing Better |access-date=5 July 2024 |language=en |date=30 December 2020}}

Dixon was selected as a Labour Party general election candidate for the Shipley constituency on 31 July 2022,{{cite web |last1=Meek |first1=Natasha |title=Labour party chooses MP candidate for next general election |url=https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/20591486.labour-partys-next-shipley-mp-candidate-chosen/ |website=Bradford Telegraph and Argus |access-date=5 July 2024 |date=1 August 2022}} and ran in the 2024 general election, beating Conservative incumbent Philip Davies by 8,603 votes.

Selected publications

The Age of Ageing Better? A Manifesto For Our Future (2020){{cite book |last1=Dixon |first1=Anna |title=The Age of Ageing Better? A Manifesto For Our Future |date=2020 |publisher=Bloomsbury |url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/age-of-ageing-better-9781472960733/ |isbn=9781472960733}}