Caroline Russell

Caroline Russell is a Green Party politician.

She moved to London in 1986, and received an engineering degree from City University and a masters from Goldsmiths College.

Resident in Highbury in the London Borough of Islington since 1992, in 2014 she was elected to Islington Council as a councillor for Highbury EEast Ward. She is the only councillor on the forty-eight member council not to belong to the Labour Party, thus forming a single member opposition group.

At the 2015 general election she contested Islington North. She came third, pushing the Liberal Democrats into fourth place.

After contesting the Green Party's nomination for Mayor of London in 2016 (which was won by Caroline Pidgeon), she was placed second on the party's list and was elected as a London-wide member of London Assembly in May 2016.