Sam Gyimah John Hayes Parliamentary Private Senior Parliamentary Adviser Secretary Samantha Cameron Isabel Spearman Special Adviser Edward Llewellyn Catherine Fall Oliver Dowden Ramsay Jones Andrew Dunlop Chief of Staff Deputy Chief of Staff Deputy Chief of staff Special Adviser on Scotland Special Adviser on Scotland Lynton Crosby Alex Dawson Director of the Conservative Research Department Andrew Cooper Ameet Gill Director of Strategy Head of Strategic communications Stephen Gilbert Adam Atashzia Political Secretary Political Adviser Chris Lockwood Tara Singh Nick Seddon Daniel Korski Deputy Head of the Policy Adviser: Energy Policy Adviser: Health Policy Adviser: Policy Unit and Environment Technology Patrick Rock Laura Trott Tim Luke Jo Johnson Deputy Head of the Special Adviser: Education Policy Adviser: Business Head of the Policy Unit Policy Unit and Enterprise Nick Gibb MP Paul Uppal MP Jake Berry MP Peter Lilley MP Home, justice and constitutional Public services: health, Local government Foreign Affairs affairs, DCMS issues education and transport Jesse Norman MP Jane Ellison MP Margot James MP Treasury, BIS and DWP Public services: Health Treasury, BIS and DWP issues issues Jean Christophe Gray Christian Cubitt Prime Minister’s Deputy Spokesperson Spokesperson Craig Oliver Director of Claire Foges Michael Salter Liz Sugg Susie Squire Alan Sendorek Communications Speechwriter Political Head of Head of Operations Head of Press Head of Political Press Broadcasting PRIME MINISTER’S SENIOR TEAM Oliver Dowden Ramsay Jones Rt Hon David Cameron MP John Hayes MP Deputy Chief of Staff Special Adviser on Scotland Prime Minister, First Lord of Senior Parliamentary the Treasury and Minister Adviser for the Civil Service Former political adviser at the Jones was appointed by the Prime Minister’s office, Prime Minister in 2012 to work Dowden famously admitted on with Andrew Dunlop on the A right-wing trade unionist an American TV show last Scottish independence minister of working-class year that most of his time in referendum. Former director origins and socially-conservative views who has No 10 was spent “on day-to-day crisis of media at the Scottish Conservatives, Ramsay served under two Liberal Democrat secretaries of management”. was suspended in 2011 pending an investigation state. John Hayes transferred to the Department into whether he improperly helped one of the of Energy and Climate Change in 2012 after two candidates in the Party's leadership race. years as Minister of State for Further Education, He studied law at Cambridge and joined the Conservative research department in 2004; to Samantha Cameron Skills and Lifelong Learning. then leave the Tories in 2007 to work for the PR Email: [email protected] Prime Minister’s wife However, due to his campaigns against wind company Hill & Knowlton. farms in his own constituency, the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate, Ed Davey stripped Dowden returned to the Party to work alongside him of the responsibility for renewable energy Andy Coulson in early 2009. Andrew Dunlop policy. Six months later, he was moved out of the Special Adviser on Scotland department to become Minister without Portfolio Email: [email protected] at the Cabinet Office, charged with advising the Prime Minister on relations with the Parliamentary A former CCHQ-staffer and Party. lobbyist, Dunlop was appointed in 2012 to lead on the government’s strategy to Email: [email protected] defeat the Scottish Edward Llewellyn Catherine Fall independence referendum. Sam Gyimah MP Chief of Staff Deputy Chief of Staff Parliamentary Private Email: [email protected] Secretary Edward Llewellyn attended Kate Fall has been described Constituency: East Surrey, Eton College at the same time South East as the “gatekeeper” to David Isabel Spearman as David Cameron. Cameron, whom she met at Majority: 16,874 Special Adviser Oxford University. Fall After leaving Oxford he was previously worked as a employed as an aide to Chris Patten and then to Conservative researcher, and helped run Spearman was a senior PR Gyimah, a former investment banker of Ghanaian the former Liberal Democrat leader, now Lord Cameron’s campaign to win his Witney seat in executive for handbag decent, sits in on cabinet meetings and sees Ashdown of Norton-Sub-Hamdon, in his role as a 2001. designer Anya Hindmarsh. himself as having two bosses, the Prime Minister High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is described as and the Parliamentary Party. “ruthlessly organised”. Fall also became a director of the think tank The Spearman, is Samantha Cameron’s personal Llewellyn had been chief of staff for David Atlantic Partnership. She became Cameron's assistant and responsible for everything from Gyimah, who was president of the Oxford Union Cameron since 2005, and was part of the private office secretary after he was elected to style advice and packing to diary management. in 1997, previously worked at Goldman Sachs Conservative negotiating team leading up to the replace Michael Howard as the leader of the before setting up various companies. He also coalition agreement. Conservative Party. previously chaired the Bow Group where he Email: [email protected] published From the Ashes, a collection of essays about the future of the Conservative Party after Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] the 2005 election defeat. Email: [email protected] POLITICAL AND STRATEGY Lynton Crosby Andrew Cooper Stephen Gilbert Former campaign director of Director of Strategy Political Secretary Boris Johnson's two successful mayoral bids, Director of strategy in As Cameron's political Lynton Crosby joined David Downing Street, Andrew secretary, Gilbert provides the Cameron's team in January Cooper, founded the polling Prime Minister with deep 2013 to mastermind the 2015 company Populus in 2003. An connections in the Party. general election. Crosby's ultra-moderniser, Cooper has Having worked in CCHQ consultancy, Crosby Textor, will run the been pressing the Conservative Party to ditch its before leaving to work for Lord Ashcroft as a campaign. He is famed for his use of 'wedge' 'nasty party' image since an essay published in political adviser, Gilbert ran the target seat politics to divide opponents; a strategy many 2001, Blue Tomorrow, New Visions for Modern operation during the 2010 general election. have suggested will lead to a renewed focus on Conservatives. immigration and welfare. Email: [email protected] The Prime Minister has been heavily reliant on There have recently been questions asked over Cooper's guidance and polling but it has been Crosby's connections to alcohol and tobacco reported that, due to tensions between Cooper firms amid allegations he influenced the Prime and Crosby, he is likely to head back to Populus Minister's decision to drop plain packaging and before the 2015 election. minimum pricing legislation. Email: [email protected] Alex Dawson Ameet Gill Adam Atashzia Director of the Conservative Head of Strategic Political Adviser Research Department Communications The former lawyer and staffer, Dawson is another special Operating as Head of who also worked for Ken adviser with a history in the Strategic Communications Clarke. Adam Atashzia Conservative Party, having following the departure of Tim moved on to George worked in the Party’s research Chatwin in 2011, Ameet Gill Osborne’s shadow Treasury department and at Number 10. He is currently the was Cameron's speech writer and has been team, and is considered to be well regarded by director of the Conservative Research working with the Prime Minister for seven years. the Chancellor. Atashzia replaced Oliver Dowden Department working on shaping the Conservative Before working for Cameron, Gill was a as Cameron’s political adviser when Dowden was Party’s messaging up to the general election. researcher for Conservative historian Niall promoted in 2012. Fergusson. Email: [email protected] Gill’s role is to ensure coherent government announcements and command the strategic grid. Email: [email protected] POLICY UNIT Patrick Rock Daniel Korski Nick Seddon Jo Johnson MP Deputy Head of the Policy Policy Adviser: Technology Policy Adviser: Health Head of the Policy Unit Unit Before joining Cameron's Previous director-general of Destined to be known as Described as Cameron’s policy team as technology the Reform think-tank and Boris’s younger brother, “policy fixer”, Rock supports adviser, Korski was well head of public affairs at Circle Johnson brought off an Chris Lockwood as the known on the foreign affairs Health, Seddon will take on electoral coup in his own right second deputy head of the circuit. In 2007, he was head responsibility for health and in 2010. Policy Unit. of the provisional reconstruction team in Basra social care policy. Seddon has come under having previously worked for Lord Ashdown when recent controversy for advocating charging With David Cameron determined to keep at least Rock was a Central Office employee in the he was a High Representative in Bosnia. patients for services and deeper NHS cuts. one Johnson on side, he was made 1990's, and his relationship with Cameron dates Parliamentary Private Secretary to the then back to when they worked together as special His connection with Cameron, through Ed Email: [email protected] Minister for Business and Enterprise Mark Prisk advisers to Michael Howard in the Home Office. Llewellyn, started in Bosnia when they both in 2011, and nine months later became an Rock is credited for coining the phrase "cows worked for Ashdown. More recently, Korski was Assistant Government Whip. moo, dogs bark, Labour puts up taxes" and, it has an adviser to Andrew Mitchell MP and Baroness been reported, he is due to be ennobled in the Ashton of Upholland. In April 2013, Cameron appointed him as a next round of peerages.