Anji Hunter

Angela Margaret Jane Hunter, Baroness Hunter of Auchenreoch (born 29 July 1955), is a Scottish public relations adviser and Labour life peer. She is noted for her close partnership with former Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Early life Hunter was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Her father, Arthur Hunter, was a rubber plantation manager, appointed MBE for his service with the Special Operations Executive in Burma during the Second World War.

Hunter was privately educated at St Leonards School in St Andrews, Scotland, and St. Clare's, Oxford, sixth form college. She first met Tony Blair while still in Scotland, at the age of 15.

She has a first in history and English from the University of Brighton. In his biography of Blair, Anthony Seldon argued "Hunter's greatest service to Blair was to help him to grow into the role, first of aspirant leader, then party leader, then Prime Minister. There is no higher service a friend can offer than to help one to become independent."

In 2001, Hunter left Downing Street to become Director of Communications at the oil and gas company BP in 2002. In 2009, she was appointed Director of External Affairs for Anglo American plc. She is a board member of the Snowdon Trust, founded by the Earl of Snowdon, which provides grants and scholarships for students with disabilities. She is the founding Director and now a Trustee of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering and serves on the Board of the Birmingham Business School. She is a member of the Commonwealth Observers Group.

In 2013, Hunter joined the international public relations and marketing consultancy Edelman as a senior adviser, where she helps promote senior women in business.

In December 2024, it was announced that Hunter had been nominated for a peerage and would be joining the House of Lords as a Labour life peer as part of the 2024 Political Peerages. She was created Baroness Hunter of Auchenreoch, of Edzell in the County of Angus on 5 February 2025.

Personal life Hunter married the landscape gardener Nick Cornwall in 1980. and married in 2006.