Neil O'Brien

Neil O'Brien OBE is Special Adviser to Prime Minister Theresa May on the Economy and Industrial Strategy. Between November 2012 and July 2016 he served as a Special Adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne. Neil is a former Director of the centre-right think tank Policy Exchange. He was appointed in August 2008, succeeding Anthony Browne and Nicholas Boles in this role.

O'Brien was previously, between 2005–2008, Director of Open Europe, a think tank working for free market reform in Europe. He grew up in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, and took a first in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, at Christ Church, Oxford.. He previously led the "Vote 2004" group which campaigned for a referendum on the EU's proposed Constitution.

In March 2010, O'Brien co-authored with Ross Clark a wide-ranging book called The Renewal of Government. It was praised by Michael Gove, then Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, and now Secretary of State for Education, who said that it "lays down with admirable clarity and form a set of radical policies ... which in the field of education I think are peerless".

Neil O'Brien was ranked number 14 in Total Politics’ poll of the top 50 political influencers in Britain, named in The Daily Telegraph as one of the "Top 100 Most Influential people on the Right", in the Sunday Times as one of the "New Political Elite" and as one of the Evening Standard's "Power 1000 of London’s New Influentials".

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