Anne Campbell

MA (Cantab), CStat, Hon PhD (Anglia Ruskin) (NC 1959)

College roles

Honorary Fellow (1996)

Biography

Anne Campbell is a graduate of Newnham in Maths (NC 1959, MA 1965). After graduating she taught Maths in secondary schools before her appointment as a Senior Lecturer in Statistics at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology (now Anglia Ruskin University). She spent a year at the Department of Mathematical Statistics at ETH Zürich (1979-80) and in 1983 was appointed Head of Statistics and Data Processing at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany, a post she held until 1992. She was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Statisticians and of the Royal Statistical Society in 1985.

That same year she was elected to Cambridgeshire County Council as a Labour Councillor, and in 1992 she was elected Member of Parliament for Cambridge, serving until the 2005 General Election. In 1996 she founded the charity Cambridge Online and in 1997 the social enterprise Opportunity Links, which later became one of the UK’s fastest-growing small companies.

She served as Chair of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (2005-2012) and was elected Chair of the Fabian Society (2007/08). She is currently Chair of Governors at the Parkside Federation Academies and serving as a Commissioner at the Royal College of Psychiatrists.