Janet Anderson
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Janet Anderson is the managing director of Pearson-Anderson Communications Ltd, associate consultant at Pandic Ltd and a former Labour Party MP.
Anderson's partner is Labour Party MP, Jim Dowd.
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Career
Anderson began her career in 1972 as a personal assistant to the editor of the Sunday Times business news and office manger. She then moved to working as a personal assistant to Labour Party MPs Barbara Castle and Jack Straw.
In 1987 Anderson moved to Central Lobby Consultants as a partner and associate director.
She then moved back to politics, working as a campaigns officer for the Labour Party, before working for the Shopping Hours Reform Council as the Northern regional organiser.
In 1992 Anderson was elected as the Labour Party MP for Rossendale and Darwen. She held this position until the 2010 election, where she lost to Jake Berry of the Conservative Party.
Since 2012 Anderson has been an associate consultant at Pandic Ltd and since 2015 the managing director of Pearson-Anderson Communications Ltd.[1]
Education
- University of Westminster and University of Nantes, 1968 – 1971[1]
Family
- Jim Dowd, partner. Labour Party MP for Lewisham West and Penge since 2007.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Linkedin Janet Anderson, accessed 23 July 2015.
