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'''Alex Burghart''' is a special adviser and policy unit lead on social justice to prime minister [[Theresa May]]. He was a policy adviser in the [[Department for Education]] from 2010 to 2011, and also worked as a researcher and adviser to the shadow children's minister from 2008 to 2010. <ref> [https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-burghart-00b0752 Alex Burghart], ''LinkedIn'', accessed 8 December. </ref>

==Think tanker==
Burghart was director of policy at the [[Centre for Social Justice]] from 2012 until 2016, where he worked with the PM's co-chief of staff [[Fiona Hill]]. <ref> Andrew Smith, [http://politics.webershandwick.co.uk/who-is-who-in-theresa-mays-downing-street/ Who is who in Theresa May’s Downing Street], ''Weber Shandwick'', 30 September 2016, accessed 8 December 2016. </ref> 

He was also appointed director of strategy and advocacy for the [[Children's Commissioner]] in February 2016.

In the 2015 general election, Burghart stood as a [[Conservative Party]] candidate for Islington North and lost. 

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