Difference between revisions of "Christopher Lockwood"
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Lockwood was educated at St Paul's school and Oxford University. <ref> Patrick Wintour [http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/apr/29/david-cameron-friend-policy-unit David Cameron appoints another friend to policy unit] ''The Guardian'', 29 April 2013, accessed 15 October 2014 </ref> | Lockwood was educated at St Paul's school and Oxford University. <ref> Patrick Wintour [http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/apr/29/david-cameron-friend-policy-unit David Cameron appoints another friend to policy unit] ''The Guardian'', 29 April 2013, accessed 15 October 2014 </ref> | ||
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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
Revision as of 11:39, 28 April 2015
Christopher Lockwood was appointed as deputy head of the Policy Unit to UK Prime Minister David Cameron in April 2013. He was appointed this role, to focus on the competitiveness agenda including technology, universities and skills, innovation, small business policy, trade policy, energy policy and boosting STEM. Lockwood was previously the US editor of The Economist, he first joined The Economist in 1984. [1]
Lockwood is described as
- "one of the brightest and most insightful people in journalism"
Lockwood was educated at St Paul's school and Oxford University. [2]
For his role at number 10, Lockwood is on a salary of £134,000 a year. [3]
Background
Between 2006 and 2013 Christopher was the US Editor of The Economist; responsible for the magazine’s US coverage. From 2000 to 2006 he was the Asia Editor for The Economist, performing the same role for China, India, Japan and the other 30 countries of the Asia-Pacific region. [4]
Previous to that he had a range of roles at the Daily Telegraph, including South-East Asia Correspondent, EU Correspondent and Diplomatic Editor. [4]
Notes and References
- ↑ James Forsyth, Chris Lockwood to join new Number 10 policy unit, The Spectator, accessed 17 September 2014.
- ↑ Patrick Wintour David Cameron appoints another friend to policy unit The Guardian, 29 April 2013, accessed 15 October 2014
- ↑ Special advisers in post, 30 November 2014 GOV.UK, accessed 28 April 2015
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Christopher Lockwood University of Cambridge, accessed 8 October 2014
