CATHERINE ANDERSON

Catherine Anderson is a UK-based author, political commentator, charity founder, and is on the approved Conservative parliamentary candidates list. Educated at schools in Italy and Austria, she went on to read Modern Languages at Durham University and has written for a number of newspapers and magazines including The Guardian, The Telegraph and Geographical magazine. She writes on British politics for Huffington Post and her first book, a memoir called The End of All Our Exploring, was published in Australia/NZ by Zabriskie Books (2017). Catherine has a long history with Asia. She established an NGO for women tailors in the Tibetan community of McLeod Ganj in the Western Himalayas (2005) where she lived for six years, and posthumously edited India’s Disappearing Railways (Carlton Books 2014) – the work of her late fiancé, Australian photojournalist Angus McDonald – and curated its accompanying exhibitions in London, Sydney and Melbourne (2014-15). In 2014 she founded The Angus McDonald Trust, a health and welfare charity working in Myanmar (Burma), where Angus died. She speaks regularly at UK and international literary festivals, and has delivered the prestigious annual Caledonian Lecture in London on controversial colonial figure Lord Dalhousie. Catherine is proud to be an active member of the Conservative Party, and is passionate about encouraging more women into public service. She is a member of Women2Win and a County Chair of the Conservative Women’s Organisation, and is an ambassador for the 50:50 Parliament project.