Jonathan Hill, Baron Hill of Oareford

The Lord Hill of Oareford
Hill in 2015
European Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
In office
1 November 2014 – 15 July 2016
PresidentJean-Claude Juncker
Preceded byMichel Barnier
Succeeded byValdis Dombrovskis
Leader of the House of Lords
In office
7 January 2013 – 15 July 2014
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Preceded byThe Lord Strathclyde
Succeeded byThe Baroness Stowell of Beeston
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
In office
7 January 2013 – 15 July 2014
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Preceded byThe Lord Strathclyde
Succeeded byOliver Letwin
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools
In office
13 May 2010 – 7 January 2013
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Preceded byDiana Johnson
Succeeded byThe Lord Nash
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
27 May 2010
On leave of absence (2014–2016)
Life Peerage
Political Secretary to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
In office
1992–1994
Prime MinisterJohn Major
Preceded byJudith Chaplin
Succeeded byHowell James
Personal details
Born
Jonathan Hopkin Hill

(1960-07-24) 24 July 1960 (age 64)
London, England
Political partyConservative
SpouseAlexandra Nettelfield
Children3
Alma materTrinity 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.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ "EU referendum: UK's EU commissioner Lord Hill to resign". BBC News. 26 June 2016.
  2. ^ "Statement on the Decision of Commissioner Lord Hill to resign from the European Commission". Retrieved 25 June 2016.
  3. ^ "Dombrovskis takes over British commissioner's job". LSM. eng.lsm.lv. 25 June 2016. Retrieved 26 June 2016.