Nicholas Boles

Nicholas Edward Coleridge Boles (born 2 November 1965) is a right-wing activist and a former Director of Policy Exchange.

Boles's biography on the Policy Exchange website in 2001 stated:

Nicholas Boles is the director of Policy Exchange. He was born in 1965. He read PPE at Magdalen College, Oxford and won a Kennedy Scholarship to study for a master's in public policy at the Kennedy School, Harvard University. In 1995, Nicholas founded Longwall Holdings, a small group of manufacturing businesses supplying the DIY industry; he remains non-executive chairman of Longwall. In 1998, he was elected to Westminster City Council as a representative of the West End ward. He served as chairman of Westminster's Housing Committee from 1999 to 2001. In early 2002, Nicholas acted as associate producer of the West End production of The Mysteries.

Affiliations

• Policy Exchange, former director
• Henry Jackson Society Project for Democratic Geopolitics, signatory of statement of principles