Anna Lo

Who is Anna Lo?

Anna Manwah Lo MBE is an Alliance Party politician in Northern Ireland. Born in Hong Kong, of Cantonese-Chinese ethnicity, Lo was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly for Belfast South in the 2007 assembly election. She was the first ethnic-minority politician elected at a regional level in Northern Ireland, and the first politician born in East Asia elected to any legislative body in the United Kingdom. Lo is also a social worker and former chairperson of the Northern Ireland Chinese Welfare Association. A Taoist, Lo has resided in Northern Ireland for more than 30 years.

She was selected as the Alliance Party's candidate for the Northern Ireland constituency in the European Parliament election, 2014.

Anna Lo has declared her preference for a United Ireland. She describes herself as anti-colonial and has said the partition of Ireland was "artificial". The Alliance Party played down her remarks, with fellow Alliance elected representative Geraldine Rice expressing shock at her stance.