Stewart Wood, Baron Wood of Anfield

The Right Honourable The Lord Wood of Anfield
Wood speaking at a Policy Exchange debate, February 2015
Shadow Minister without Portfolio
In office 7 October 2011 – 11 May 2015 Serving with Michael Dugher (2011–2013) and Jon Trickett (2013–2015)
Leader	Ed Miliband
Personal details
Born	(1968-03-25) 25 March 1968 (age 48)
Political party	Labour
Alma mater	University College, Oxford

Stewart Martin Wood, Baron Wood of Anfield (born 25 March 1968) is a Labour life peer in the House of Lords.

Wood grew up in Tonbridge, Kent and attended the Judd School. In 1986 he went to University College, Oxford, where he obtained a first-class degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He then went to Harvard University as a Fulbright Scholar where he completed a PhD in Government in 1996.

He has taught at Oxford University since 1995. From 1996-2011 he was a Politics Tutor at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he is still an (unpaid) emeritus fellow. In 2016 he was appointed a Fellow of Practice at the Blavatnik School of Government in Oxford.

From 2001-2007 he was a member of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Council of Economic Advisers, specializing in education policy, local government affairs & EU policy. He was part of the Treasury team that delivered the "Five Tests" assessment recommending that the UK not join the Euro in 2003. From 2007-2010 he served as an adviser to Gordon Brown, Prime Minister covering foreign policy; Northern Ireland; and culture, media and sports policy. After the 2010 election he helped run Ed Miliband's campaign to become Leader of the Labour Party, and served as an adviser to Ed Miliband, the Labour party's leader, from 2010 to 2015.

On 15 January 2011, Wood was created a life peer with the title Baron Wood of Anfield, of Tonbridge in the County of Kent, and was introduced in the House of Lords on 18 January 2011, where he sits as a Labour peer. From 2011-2015 he served as a Shadow Minister without Portfolio.