Mayor of the London Borough of Bromley - biography
Councillor Jonathan Andrews was elected Mayor of Bromley for 2025-26, at the annual meeting of the Council on 14 May 2025.
Jonathan was first elected to Bromley Council in 2022, representing Darwin ward, Bromley’s most rural ward (named for its former resident Charles Darwin) and geographically larger than the boroughs of Islington and Kensington and Chelsea combined, encompassing over 20% of the borough's land – and the ward in which his grandparents have lived for over 50 years.
Outside of his council role, Jonathan is a solicitor and has served as a trustee, advisor and supporter of several charities.
In his time as a councillor, Jonathan has served on various committees, including as Chairman of various Plans Sub-Committees and of the Rights of Way Sub-Committee, and as Vice-Chairman of the Children, Education and Families PDS Committee.
A passionate champion for disability inclusion - for which he has been recognised nationally and internationally, including by organisations such as the Legal 500, the Law Society, the Commonwealth of Nations, and with an honorary degree from the Open University - Jonathan also chairs Bromley’s All Age Autism Partnership Board.
Jonathan was honoured to have been granted the opportunity by immediate past Mayor Councillor Dr David Jefferys to serve the borough as Deputy Mayor of Bromley for 2024-25, alongside his mother, Theresa, as Deputy Mayoress.
And it is an even greater honour to now serve as Mayor of Bromley - the borough in which he was born (in 1994, in what was then Farnborough Hospital, now Princess Royal University Hospital), was educated in (at Warren Road Primary School and Darrick Wood Secondary School), and has lived in all his life.
Jonathan is pleased to once more have his mother – who has travelled the length and breadth of Bromley and met families up and down the borough in her former role at Bromley Council supporting children with special educational needs and disabilities – at his side.
Together, Jonathan and Theresa look forward to representing and serving the borough as Mayor and Mayoress and to meeting and engaging with community groups, volunteers and civic society across Bromley and beyond.