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]

Jonathan Hill was born in Cockfosters, London, on 24 July 1960, the youngest child of Rowland Louis Hill and Paddy Marguerite née Henwood.^[4][5] He was educated at Highgate School, then an independent all-boys school in Highgate village,^[6] North London, before going to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read History, graduating with the degree of Master of Arts (MA).

Hill worked in the Conservative Research Department (1985–86), before becoming a Special Adviser to Kenneth Clarke at the Department of Employment, Department of Trade and Industry and Department of Health until 1989. After working for Lowe Bell Communications (1989–91), he joined the Number 10 Policy Unit (1991–92) and served as Political Secretary to PM John Major and Head of the Prime Minister's Political Office (1992–94) during the Maastricht Treaty negotiations.^[7] He was appointed CBE in the 1995 New Year Honours List.^[8]

Subsequently, Hill worked at Bell Pottinger from 1994 until 1998 as a senior consultant, before leaving to become a founding director of Quiller Consultants.^[9]

On 27 May 2010, he was created a life peer as Baron Hill of Oareford, of Oareford, in the County of Somerset,^[10] and was introduced to the House of Lords on the same day, taking office as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools in the Department for Education.^[11] There are reports (contradicted by Hill) that in July 2012, he attempted, unsuccessfully, to resign as a Minister.^[12][13]

Lord Hill succeeded Lord Strathclyde as Leader of the House of Lords, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Leader of the Conservative Party in the House of Lords in January 2013,^[14] and was sworn of the Privy Council.

In 1988 Hill married Alexandra Jane,^{[citation needed]} daughter of Major John Nettelfield MC, a British Army officer who served with distinction in the Royal Artillery during World War II;^[29] Lord and Lady Hill have a son and two daughters.

He holds shareholdings in Huntsworth plc, an international public relations company.^[30][31] In January 2013, The Independent stated he reportedly held at least £50,000+ worth of shares in the company which bought Quiller in 2006 for £5.9m,^[32] headed by Conservative parliamentarian Lord Chadlington.

• Too Close to Call: John Major, Power and Politics in No.10; by Sarah Hogg & Jonathan Hill, Little Brown (1995), ISBN 0-316-87716-6

• Life Peer as Baron Hill of Oareford, of Oareford, in the County of Somerset (created 27 May 2010)
• CBE (1995)