Sean Anstee
Sean Brian Anstee is an English Conservative Party Politician and businessman who was formerly the Leader of the Council on Trafford council and since 2008, has been a Councillor for the Bowdon ward. Anstee is also the Executive Director for Advisory, Public Affairs and PR at Cratus, a specialist local government consultancy. He was awarded a CBE in the 2019 New Year Honours list for services to local government.
He stood as the Conservative candidate for Mayor of Greater Manchester in the 2017 election, achieving 128,752 votes and coming second behind Labour's Andy Burnham.
Anstee grew up on a council estate in Partington, and attended Broadoak School, leaving aged 16 to take up an apprenticeship at Barclays in Timperley. He joined BNY Mellon in 2009.. He later graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2013 with a degree in Business. He has represented Bowdon on the council since 2008, and became Leader of the council in February 2014. At age 26, he was the youngest council leader in the UK.
