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Jonathan Hopkin Hill

The Right Honourable
The Lord Hill of Oareford
CBE PC
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European Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
In office
1 November 2014 – 15 July 2016
President Jean-Claude Juncker
Preceded by Michel Barnier (Internal Market and Services)
Succeeded by Valdis Dombrovskis
Leader of the House of Lords
In office
7 January 2013 – 15 July 2014
Prime Minister David Cameron
Deputy The Lord McNally
The Lord Wallace of Tankerness
Preceded by The Lord Strathclyde
Succeeded by The Baroness Stowell of Beeston
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
In office
7 January 2013 – 15 July 2014
Prime Minister David Cameron
Preceded by The Lord Strathclyde
Succeeded by Oliver Letwin
Under Secretary of State for Schools
In office
13 May 2010 – 7 January 2013
Prime Minister David Cameron
Preceded by Diana Johnson
Succeeded by The Lord Nash
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
27 May 2010
On leave of absence (2014-2016)
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born Jonathan Hopkin Hill
(1960-07-24) 24 July 1960 (age 57)
London, United Kingdom
Political party Conservative
Spouse(s) Alexandra Nettelfield
Children 3
Alma mater Trinity College, Cambridge

Jonathan Hopkin Hill, Baron Hill of Oareford CBE PC (born 24 July 1960) is a British Conservative politician and former European Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union. Hill was Leader of the House of Lords and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 2013 to 2014. Prior to that, he served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools from 2010 to 2013 in the Conservative-Lib Dem Government.

Hill, a former political lobbyist and PR consultant, was special adviser to Cabinet Minister Kenneth Clarke and an adviser to the Conservative Prime Minister John Major before being appointed a Government Minister in 2010. Prime Minister David Cameron put Hill's name forward, on 15 July 2014, to be the next British EU Commissioner, upon which Lord Hill resigned from the Cabinet. On 10 September 2014, President Juncker appointed Hill as the European Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union.

He took office as Britain's representative in the Juncker Commission on 1 November 2014 but announced his resignation on 25 June 2016 following the referendum in the UK to leave the EU, leaving office on 15 July.


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