Councillor Anna Rothery

Anna joined the Board in January 2021. She was Lord Mayor of Liverpool from 2019 to 2021 and has an extensive and wide-ranging track record in public service, with a particular focus on business and community development initiatives and on equality.

Raised in Toxteth, Liverpool, Anna was the first elected member to address the United Nations in Geneva on religious, cultural and linguistic differences. She has represented the Princes Park ward of Liverpool as a councillor since 2006 and was the council’s Chair of Culture Tourism and Sport from 2010-13. She studied sociology, psychology and law and undertook her MA in Business and Regeneration in 2007 at the University of Liverpool.

Anna won the HSBC Ethnicity Award for a Political Figure in 2019 and the House of Lords Baton Award for most influential black female politician in the same year. She made history both by becoming Liverpool’s first black Lord Mayor and the first Lord Mayor in the city to be reappointed to the role, serving two terms.