Cllr Susanna Pressel has been a City Councillor since 1996 and a County Councillor since 2009, representing part of the city centre, Jericho and the Botley Road area. She studied French and German at Somerville College and enjoyed a long career as a teacher, mainly in Blackbird Leys.

Susanna has been an active member of the OPT (and the Civic Society) since first becoming a councillor and has lived in the North Oxford conservation area for more than 40 years and takes a close interest in the City Council's work on conservation.

Susanna is City Councillor for Osney and St Thomas Ward and County Councillor for Jericho and Osney Division.