[1] Alan Ganoo was born in Port Louis,[citation needed] his father was a police sergeant and he grew up with four sisters and two brothers.

[3] He studied law at Middle Temple and at King's College, London and has practised as a barrister since 1975.

[4] He joined the Mauritian Militant Movement (MMM) in the 1970s and was elected to the Legislative Assembly for the first time in 1982.

In May 2015 Alan Ganoo and several other politicians left the MMM where he was Deputy Leader and formed a new party called Mouvement Patriotique.

[5] In October 2019 his newly-formed party became part of the Alliance Morisien, led by the MSM and which won the General Elections.