Jonathan Hill
Jonathan Hopkin Hill, the Rt Hon. the Lord Hill of Oareford CBE, was born on 24 July 1960. He is a British Conservative politician who served as Leader of the House of Lords and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (2013–14), and previously as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools (2010–13) in the Conservative-LibDem Government. The Prime Minister, David Cameron, put Hill's name forward, on 15 July 2014, to be the UK's next EU Commissioner in European Commission President-elect Juncker's first administration, prompting his resignation from the Cabinet. On 10 September 2014, European Commission President-elect Juncker appointed Lord Hill to an EC finance portfolio.
Political Career[edit]
Hill worked in the Conservative Research Department (1985–86), before serving as Special Adviser to Kenneth Clarke at the Department of Employment, Department of Trade and Industry and Department of Health until 1989. After working for Lowe Bell Communications (1989–91), he worked at the Number 10 Policy Unit (1991–92) and served as Political Secretary to Prime Minister John Major and Head of the Prime Minister's Political Office (1992–94) during the Maastricht Treaty negotiations. He was appointed CBE in the 1995 New Year Honours List. Subsequently, Hill worked at Bell Pottinger Group from 1994 until 1998 as a senior consultant, before leaving to become a founding director of Quiller Consultants. On 27 May 2010, he was created a Life Peer as Baron Hill of Oareford, of Oareford, in the County of Somerset, and was introduced to the House of Lords on the same day, taking office as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools in the Department for Education. In July 2012, the Sunday Times reported that Lord Hill had attempted, unsuccessfully, to resign as a Minister. After the departure of Lord Strathclyde as Leader of the House of Lords, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Leader of the Conservative Party in the House of Lords in January 2013, Hill was appointed as his successor and was sworn of the Privy Council. On September 10, 2014 Lord Hill was announced as EU Commissioner-designate for the Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union portfolio in the forthcoming Juncker Commission. His newly-created Directorate-General will assimilate existing EU expertise and has responsibility for ensuring that the European Commission remains vigilant over the banking and financial sectors and is pro-active in implementing new supervisory and regulatory rules accordingly, save overseeing pay in the financial sector which has been allocated elsewhere.
Education[edit]
Lord Hill graduated with the degree of Master of Arts (MA) in History at Trinity College, Cambridge.
