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Stephen Gilbert Political Secretary
Gabby Bertin Director of External
Relations
Andrew Goodfellow Director of the Conservative
Research Department
Edward Llewellyn Chief of Staff (Political)
Kate Shouesmith Special Adviser (Operations)
Samantha Cameron Rosie Lyburn Special Adviser
Catherine Fall Deputy Chief of Staff (Political)
Ramsay Jones Special Adviser on Scotland
Daniel Korski Deputy Head of the
Policy Unit
Antonia Williams Deputy Head of the
Policy Unit
Rachel Wolf Policy Adviser: Tech, Innovation
and Education
Stephen Heidari—Robinson Policy Adviser: Energy and
Environment
Nick Seddon Policy Adviser: Health and
Social Care
Chris Hopkins Policy Adviser: Business ,
Innovation and Trade
Helen Bower Prime Minister’s
Spokesperson
Graeme Wilson Prime Minister’s
Press Secretary
Jessica Cunniffe Speechwriter
Giles Kenningham Head of Press (Political)
Caroline Preston Head of Broadcasting
(Political)
Gavin Williamson MP Parliamentary Private
Secretary
Alex Morton Policy Adviser: Housing, Planning
and Local Government
Max Chambers Policy Adviser: Home Affairs
MP
SpAd
Civil Servant
Press
Other
PRIME MINISTER
POLITICAL &
STRATEGY
POLICY
PRESS &
COMMUNICATIONS
DOWNING STREET POLICY UNIT
PRESS OFFICE
Richard Parr Policy Adviser: International
Development
Camilla Cavendish Director of Policy Unit
Mats Persson
Christian Guy Policy Adviser: Welfare Reform
and Opportunity Ameet Gill OBE Director of Strategy
Richard Chew Special Adviser (Strategy Unit)
POLITICAL ADVISERS
Laura Trott Head of Grid
Sheridan Westlake Richard Chew
Adam Atashzai
Ed de Minckwitz Research and Information Unit
EU REFORM
UNIT Kate Marley
Martha Varney Political Correspondence
Manager
Tim Kiddell Policy Adviser: Civil Society
Kate Marley
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Craig Oliver Political and Communications
Director and Deputy Chief of
Staff
Liz Sugg CBE Head of Political Strategy
PRIME MINISTER’S SENIOR TEAM
Rt Hon David Cameron MP
Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury
and Minister for the Civil Service
Gavin Williamson MP
Parliamentary Private Secretary
Constituency: South Staffordshire, West Midlands
Born in Scarborough, the state-educated Williamson has become a serial PPS, serving under Hugo Swire, Owen Patterson and Patrick McLoughlin respectively.
Williamson succeeded Sam Gyimah MP to the top job in October 2013 and described himself as “deeply honoured” by the appointment.
Rt Hon Edward Llewellyn
Chief of Staff (Political)
Edward Llewellyn attended Eton College at the same time as David Cameron.
After leaving Oxford he was employed as an aide to Chris Patten and then to the former Liberal Democrat leader, now Lord Ashdown of Norton-Sub-Hamdon, in his role as a High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Llewellyn has been Chief of Staff for David Cameron since 2005, and was part of the Conservative negotiating team leading up to the coalition agreement.
Samantha Cameron
Prime Minister’s wife
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Stephen Gilbert
Political Secretary
As Cameron's political secretary, Gilbert provides the Prime Minister with deep connections in the party. Having worked in
CCHQ before leaving to work for Lord Ashcroft as a Political Adviser, Gilbert ran the target seat operation during the 2010 general election.
Catherine Fall
Deputy Chief of Staff (Political)
Kate Fall has been described as the “gatekeeper” to David Cameron, whom she met at Oxford University. Fall previously worked as a Conservative researcher, and
helped run Cameron’s campaign to win his Witney seat in 2001.
Nominated for a peerage following the 2015 General Election, Fall will be able to vote, but not speak in the Lords.
Fall was a director of the think tank The Atlantic Partnership. She became Cameron's private office secretary after he was elected to replace Michael Howard as the leader of the Conservative Party.
POLITICAL AND STRATEGY
Ameet Gill
Director of Strategic Communications
Operating as Head of Strategic Communications following the departure of Tim Chatwin in 2011, Gill was Cameron's speechwriter and has been working with the
Prime Minister for seven years. Before working for Cameron, Gill was a researcher for Conservative historian Niall Fergusson.
Gill’s role is to ensure coherent government announcements and command the strategic grid.
Liz Sugg
Head of Political Strategy
A loyal Cameron supporter since the days of opposition, as head of operations Sugg oversaw the prime minister’s visits and trips in the UK and abroad.Previously, she worked as
the press head for Conservative MEPs, and for Sky News.
The Spectator reported that Cameron “totally respects Liz’s judgment. She’s got the PM’s ear and uses it wisely.”
Email: [email protected]
POLITICAL AND STRATEGY
Martha Varney
Head of Operations (Political)
Having been General election coordinator for events and visits, Varney took up her position as Head of Operations at No 10 after the 2015
election victory. She has extensive experience of being an adviser at the Cabinet Office and in No 10.
Varney graduated from the University of York in 2005, having read politics and philosophy. She worked as a parliamentary researcher for Oliver Letwin before becoming his special adviser in 2010. While reports suggest Varney played a key role in helping to compile and proof-read policy contributions to draft the Conservative Party manifesto.
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Gabby Bertin
Director of External Relations
Gabby Bertin, spent a number of years as Cameron's press aide and spokeswoman, has been Director of External Relations since Au-
gust 2013. Bertin started working as Cameron’s press secretary after he became Conservative leader in 2005 and retained the role at Number 10 when he entered government.
As reported in the Guardian in 2011, she was previously paid £25,000 by a major US drug company to work as a researcher for the Atlantic Bridge charity run by Liam Fox while he was shadow health secretary. According to The Spectator, Cameron has praised Bertin’s ability to “see round corners”
POLITICAL AND STRATEGY POLITICAL AND STRATEGY—SPECIAL ADVISERS
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Sheridan Westlake
Political advisor
The special advisor to Eric Pickles when he was secretary of state for communities and local government, Westlake moved to become an advisor at Downing Street after May 2015.
Described as a key figure at CLG, and a “master of detail”, he was previously deputy director of research for the party. It has been suggested that his role at No10 will be in much the same vein, checking “through the small print of everything to make sure nothing is slipped in or slips through”.
Adam Atashzai
Political Adviser
Atashzai is a former lawyer and staffer, who also worked for Ken Clarke. Atashzia moved on to George Osborne’s shadow Treasury
team, and is considered to be well regarded by the Chancellor. Atashzia replaced Oliver Dowden as Cameron’s Political Adviser when Dowden was promoted in 2012.
Laura Trott
Head of Grid
Previously chief of staff to Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude, Trott was made the Prime Minister’s Special Adviser on women in
February 2012, to help the Conservatives combat their poor polling among the female demographic.
Whilst in the Policy Unit, Trott led on education policy.
Kate Shouesmith
Special Adviser (Operations)
Shouesmith has been a special adviser in the
PM’s operations team since January 2015,
having previously held the role of special adviser
to Samantha Cameron.
Ramsay Jones
Special Adviser on Scotland
Jones was appointed by the Prime Minister in 2012 to work with Andrew Dunlop on the Scottish independence referendum. Former director of media at the Scottish Conservatives, Ramsay was suspended in
2011 pending an investigation into whether he improperly helped one of the candidates in the Party's leadership race.
Kate Marley
Special Adviser to the Prime Minister
A former personal assistant to David Cameron, Marley spent most of her career so far working
for the prime minister. Her roles included assistant private secretary (diary) at 10 Downing Street, private secretary to the minister for government policy at the Cabinet Office, private secretary to Jo Johnson MP and special advisor in Cameron’s policy unit. Since May 2015, she has been a special adviser to the prime minister.
Marley graduated from University of London with a BA in Politics. She received an MBE this year for public service.
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POLICY UNIT
Camilla Cavendish
Director of Policy Unit
Former associate editor of The Sunday
Times, Camilla Cavendish holds
responsibility for drawing up eye-catching
policies for the party to implement.
She called on an element of political cross-dressing to take ideas
from Labour and the Lib Dems to create a broad church approach.
A former Kennedy Scholar at the Harvard School of Government,
she also worked for McKinsey &Co, joining The Times in 2002.
Daniel Korski
Deputy Head of Policy Unit
Before joining Cameron's policy team as a technology adviser, Korski was well known on the foreign affairs circuit. In 2007, he was head of the provisional reconstruction team in Basra having previously worked for Lord
Ashdown when he was a High Representative in Bosnia.
His connection with Cameron, through Ed Llewellyn, started in Bosnia when they both worked for Ashdown. Korski has been an adviser to Andrew Mitchell MP and Baroness Ashton of Upholland.
Antonia Williams
Deputy Head of Policy Unit
Williams joined the Policy Unit in May 2012
after spending three years working for PwC
and Ernst & Young in Sydney, Australia.
She previously worked as a Policy Adviser in the Cabinet Office
under Tony Blair between 2004 and 2006, and then as a Team
Leader at the Department for Work and Pensions.
Rachel Wolf
Policy Adviser: Tech, Innovation and Education
As founder of the New Schools Network, Rachel
Wolf has been described by The Spectator as
someone who “gets things done.”
Nick Seddon
Policy Adviser: Health
Previous Director-General of the Reform think tank and Head of Public Affairs at Circle Health, Seddon is responsibile for health and social care
policy. Seddon came under controversy for advocating charging patients for services and deeper NHS cuts.
Chris Hopkins
Policy Adviser: Business and Enterprise
Formerly of UK Trade and Investment venture capital unit, Hopkins was appointed in the summer of 2014 to replace Tim Luke.
In his role at UKTI he was responsible for identifying and supporting UK start-ups that would be eligible for venture capital funding and connect them with potential investors overseas.
Richard Parr
Policy Adviser: International Development
An Oxford graduate, Parr has been at No. 10 since 2012 advising on international develop-ment.
The Oxford graduate spent time as a special adviser to Andrew Mitchell during his time at DFID.
Alex Morton
Policy Adviser: Housing
Morton was recruited to the Policy Unit from Policy Exchange in December 2013, where he had been Head of
Housing, Planning and Urban Policy. Prior to joining Policy Exchange in 2010, Morton worked as Secretary to the Conservative Party’s Globalisation and Global Poverty Policy Group under Peter Lilley MP. He is also a former Civil Servant for the Department of Health, and has authored a number of publications on housing.
These have included Ending Expensive Social Tenancies, Why aren’t we building enough attractive homes? and Planning for Less. Just prior to his appointment he called for the government to build 1.5 million homes and a garden city by 2020.
Tim Kiddell
Policy Adviser: Civil
Society/DCMS
Kiddell, a career civil servant who previously worked for Gordon Brown as a private
secretary and speechwriter, joined the Policy Unit in 2014 as a replacement for Michael Lynas.
As well as experience in Downing Street under Labour, he previously worked on the ‘cross-government delivery unit for the Health, Work and Wellbeing strategy’, supporting Dame Carol Black’s review of the health of the British workforce.
Kiddell studied at both Cambridge and Harvard; he is also a keen football fan, serving on the board of the award-winning football charity, Street League.
Max Chambers
Policy Adviser: Home
Affairs
Chambers took on the Home
Affairs and Justice Brief in
the Policy Unit in May 2014 after Patrick Rock’s
resignation; Rock quit shortly before being
arrested over an alleged offence related to child
abuse images. Chambers was previously Head of
Crime and Justice at Policy Exchange, where he
advocated devolving more powers to Police and
Crime Commissioners and building bigger, more
modern prisons.
Prior to this, Chambers worked for a welfare-to-work provider, and was a senior research fellow at Policy Exchange. He has also worked in Parliament for the shadow justice and home affairs teams.
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Christian Guy
Policy Adviser: Welfare Reform
and opportunity
As the director of the Centre of Social Justice, Christian Guy has
been integral to Conservative Party thinking on welfare, child poverty, criminal justice, the Modern Slavery Act and service provision. He previously worked on the social mobility and child poverty commission, on the board of Yarlington Housing Group and as a policy expert and speechwriter to Iain Duncan Smith.
Stephen Heidari-Robinson
Policy Adviser: Energy and
environment
Stephen has taken over the Energy and Environment brief in No.10.
He was previously Vice President at Schlumberger Business Consulting (SBC) where he was a consultant for the oil and gas industry.
Before joining SBC Stephen worked at McKinsey as head of its National Oil Company service with a focus on state oil firms in the Middle East.
He was formally a civil servant in the Ministry of Defence for six years, again working with the Middle East and Central Asia.
POLICY UNIT
Mats Persson
Policy Adviser: Europe
Mats Persson joined the EU Reform Unit from the think tank Open Europe, which he
joined in 2007.
The pro-EU think tank was a strong advocate of challenging the way Europe worked.
The 6ft 7 Swede had raised frustrations at the prime ministers negotiations of British membership of the EU, but with Persson inside Cameron’s tent, he can now help drive the renegotiations.
Kate Marley
Policy Adviser: Europe
A former personal assistant to David Cameron, Marley spent most of her career so
far working for the prime minister. Her roles included assistant private secretary (diary) at 10 Downing Street, private secretary to the minister for government policy at the Cabinet Office, private secretary to Jo Johnson MP and special advisor in Cameron's policy unit. Since May 2015, she has been a special adviser to the prime minister.
Marley graduated from University of London with a BA in Politics. She received an MBE this year for public service.
Disclaimer: This is Dods interpretation of the organisation, members and roles and are updated to the best of our
knowledge at the time of going to press. Produced by James Sloan, Political Consultant, Dods Monitoring.
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PRESS AND COMMUNICATIONS
Craig Oliver
Director of Communications
David Cameron's Director of Communications, and former senior BBC executive, Craig Oliver replaced Andy Coulson
in February 2011. Oliver was the controller of English services at BBC Global News, having previously been editor of the six and ten o’clock news programmes. Oliver was named in documents submitted to the Leveson Inquiry as being one of eight Downing Street advisers to have had contacted Frédéric Michel, a News Corporation lobbyist.
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Caroline Preston
Head of Broadcasting
(Political)
Formerly a deputy press officer to Downing Street,
Preston has previously worked for Freud Communications.
She took up her current role in June 2015, following the Conservative victory.
Graeme Wilson
Political Press Secretary
Wilson, a prominent political
journalist, was brought in as
Political Press Secretary in
August 2013, replacing Susie Squire. He was
previously Deputy Political Editor at The Sun, a
publication he joined in 2007, 10 years after he
began covering politics for other newspapers- most
notably The Daily Telegraph.
James Forsyth, Editor of the Spectator, describe Wilson as ‘one of the most respected political journalists on Fleet Street’ upon his appointment.
Helen Bower
Prime Minister’s
Spokesperson
Helen Bower became the
Prime Minister’s Deputy
Spokesperson in January 2014, taking over from
Scott Marchbank who moved to provide
maternity cover as the Head of National Security
Communications for a year.
Bower moves from her role as Chief Press
Officer for Foreign Affairs and Defence; prior to
this she was based in Brussels as Head of the
Press Office at the FCO’s UK representation to
the EU.
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Jessica Cunniffe
Speechwriter
Jessica Cuniffe was brought
into the Prime Minister’s office
as a Speechwriter in March
2014, after spending 3 years as a Special Adviser
to Baroness Warsi. Prior to working for Warsi,
Cunniffe was a local newspaper journalist,
working for the Milton Keynes-based MK News.
Cunniffe has been identified as being behind
Baroness Warsi and David Cameron’s speeches
on the continued importance of religion in Britain
and beyond.
Giles Kenningham
Head of Press (Political)
A former producer of the ITV Lunchtime News, he joined the Conservative Party as a press officer in 2006.
After a spell as Director of Communications for the Conservative Party, Kenningham took up his current role following the 2015 General Election.