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{{Template:Lobbying_Portal_badge}}{{Template: Revolving Door badge}}[[Jonathan Hill]], Baron Hill of Oareford, (born 24 July 1960) was created a life peer in May 2010 and appointed schools minister in the [[Department for Education]] the same day.<ref>[http://www.education.gov.uk/aboutdfe/departmentalinformation/ministerialteam/hill Lord Hill of Oareford CBE], Department for Education, accessed 4 February 2012.</ref>
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{{Template:Lobbying_Portal_badge}}{{Template: Revolving Door badge}}Lord [[Jonathan Hill]], a former lobbyist, was the EU's financial services chief from November 2014 to July 2016.
  
In 2012 Hill was appointed leader of the [[House of Lords]] and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He stepped down from the Government in July 2014, when he was controversially nominated to become the UK's European Commissioner.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28310707 Lord Hill set to become UK's new EU Commissioner], BBC News, 15 July 2014.</ref>
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He is a board member of the [[Centre for Policy Studies]].
  
==Background==
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Hill is the founding director of [[Quiller Consultants]]. He was also an adviser to public sector reform think tank, [[Reform]].<ref>[http://ec.europa.eu/commission/sites/cwt/files/commissioner_declarations/hill-doi_en.pdf Declaration of Interests], European Commission website, accessed August 2015</ref>
Hill is a former lobbyist for [[Lowe Bell Communications]] (1989–91) and the [[Bell Pottinger Group]] from 1994 until 1998. He subsequently became a founding director of [[Quiller Consultants]].
 
  
He is a former political secretary to Conservative prime minister [[John Major]] in the 1990s.
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Hill was elevated to the [[House of Lords]] in May 2010 and was appointed schools minister in the [[Department for Education]] by the Conservative-led government the same day.<ref>[http://www.education.gov.uk/aboutdfe/departmentalinformation/ministerialteam/hill Lord Hill of Oareford CBE], Department for Education, accessed 4 February 2012.</ref>
  
==European role==
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==Lobbying career==
On September 10, 2014 Lord Hill was presented as designated EU Commissioner for the Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union portfolio in the forthcoming Juncker Commission.  
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Hill has passed through the revolving door between politics and the commercial lobbying industry a number of times.  
  
==CV==
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*1989–91: Hill was a lobbyist with [[Lowe Bell Communications]].
*Read history at [[Cambridge University]]
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He then moved to the Number 10 Policy Unit and became Political Secretary to then Prime Minister [[John Major]] and Head of the Prime Minister's Political Office.
*1980s - special adviser to [[Kenneth Clarke]] in Conservative cabinet
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*1994-98: Hill was a lobbyist with [[Bell Pottinger]].
*Early 1990s - adviser to then PM [[John Major]] during EU's Maastricht Treaty negotiations, which launched euro
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*1998: Hill founded [[Quiller Consultants]] with former journalist [[John Eisenhammer]]. He remained a shareholder in Quiller's parent group, [[Huntsworth]], until 2014.<ref>[http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld/ldreg/prevreg/2014/Register080514.pdf Lords Register of Interests], May 2014</ref> He currently declares that he has some holdings in a multi-asset fund, over which, he states, he has no control over.<ref>[http://ec.europa.eu/commission/sites/cwt/files/commissioner_declarations/hill-doi_en.pdf Declaration of Interests], European Commission website, accessed August 2015</ref>
*1994-1998 - senior consultant at lobbying firm [[Bell Pottinger Group]]
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*Founding director of [[Quiller Consultants]]
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==Political career==
*2010 - Becomes a life peer as Baron Hill of Oareford and junior education minister
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Hill has held a number of political posts since the 1980s. These include:
*Serves as leader of [[House of Lords]] and leader of Conservatives in the House
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*1980s: special adviser to [[Kenneth Clarke]] in Conservative cabinet
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*Early 1990s: adviser to then Prime Minister [[John Major]] during EU's Maastricht Treaty negotiation
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*May 2010: made a Conservative life peer as Baron Hill of Oareford  
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*May 2010: appointed education minister by [[David Cameron]]'s government
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*January 2013: Hill was appointed leader of the [[House of Lords]] and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
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*July 2014: Hill stepped down from the Government
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*September 2014: Hill was presented as designated EU Commissioner for the Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union portfolio in the forthcoming Juncker Commission.
  
 
==Affiliations==
 
==Affiliations==
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===Former affiliations===
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*[[Prosperty UK]] conference in association with the [[Legatum Institute]]
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*[[Reform]], free market think tank.
 
*Sharedholdings in international PR agency [[Huntsworth]] plc.  
 
*Sharedholdings in international PR agency [[Huntsworth]] plc.  
  
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Lord Jonathan Hill, a former lobbyist, was the EU's financial services chief from November 2014 to July 2016.

He is a board member of the Centre for Policy Studies.

Hill is the founding director of Quiller Consultants. He was also an adviser to public sector reform think tank, Reform.[1]

Hill was elevated to the House of Lords in May 2010 and was appointed schools minister in the Department for Education by the Conservative-led government the same day.[2]

Lobbying career

Hill has passed through the revolving door between politics and the commercial lobbying industry a number of times.

He then moved to the Number 10 Policy Unit and became Political Secretary to then Prime Minister John Major and Head of the Prime Minister's Political Office.

  • 1994-98: Hill was a lobbyist with Bell Pottinger.
  • 1998: Hill founded Quiller Consultants with former journalist John Eisenhammer. He remained a shareholder in Quiller's parent group, Huntsworth, until 2014.[3] He currently declares that he has some holdings in a multi-asset fund, over which, he states, he has no control over.[4]

Political career

Hill has held a number of political posts since the 1980s. These include:

  • 1980s: special adviser to Kenneth Clarke in Conservative cabinet
  • Early 1990s: adviser to then Prime Minister John Major during EU's Maastricht Treaty negotiation
  • May 2010: made a Conservative life peer as Baron Hill of Oareford
  • May 2010: appointed education minister by David Cameron's government
  • January 2013: Hill was appointed leader of the House of Lords and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
  • July 2014: Hill stepped down from the Government
  • September 2014: Hill was presented as designated EU Commissioner for the Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union portfolio in the forthcoming Juncker Commission.

Affiliations

Former affiliations

Resources

Notes

  1. Declaration of Interests, European Commission website, accessed August 2015
  2. Lord Hill of Oareford CBE, Department for Education, accessed 4 February 2012.
  3. Lords Register of Interests, May 2014
  4. Declaration of Interests, European Commission website, accessed August 2015