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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: lsugg@no10.x.gsi.gov.uk

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.

Email: coliver@no10.x.gsi.gov.uk

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.