Steve Hilton
| Steve Hilton | |
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Hilton in 2015
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| Born |
25 August 1969 United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Education |
Christ's Hospital New College, Oxford |
| Spouse(s) | Rachel Whetstone |
Steve Hilton (born 25 August 1969) is a former director of strategy for David Cameron, who was Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016.
He spent a year as a visiting scholar at Stanford Universities' Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He is the co-founder and current CEO of Crowdpac, a political data technology startup, and is a visiting scholar at the think tank Policy Exchange.
Hilton is the son of Hungarian immigrants whose original surname was Hircsák (alternative spelling: Hirtsac), who fled their home during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. They came to Britain, initially claiming asylum, and anglicised their name to Hilton.
He won a scholarship to Christ's Hospital School in Horsham before reading Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at New College, Oxford.
After graduating, Hilton joined Conservative Central Office, where he came to know David Cameron and Rachel Whetstone, his future wife and Senior Vice-President of Policy and Communications at Uber. He liaised with the party's advertising firm, Saatchi and Saatchi, and was praised by Maurice Saatchi, who remarked, "No one reminds me as much of me when young as Steve." During this time Hilton came up with the "New Labour, New Danger" demon eyes poster campaign for the Conservative's pre-general election campaign in 1996, which won an award from the advertising industry's Campaign magazine at the beginning of 1997. In 2005, Hilton lost out to future Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove in the selection process for the Surrey Heath constituency.
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