Nick Hillman

Nicholas Piers Huxley Hillman OBE (born 21 April 1972 in Banbury, Oxfordshire) is an English higher education policy adviser, previously a school history teacher and special adviser for the Conservatives. He has been the director of the Higher Education Policy Institute since 2014.

Education Hillman studied as an undergraduate at the University of Manchester. before teaching history at St Paul's School, London from 1995 to 1998.

Career Hillman worked for Conservative MP David Willetts, first as a Senior Research Officer from 2000 to 2003.

He worked on pensions policy for the Association of British Insurers from 2003 to 2007, before returning to politics. A fundraising dinner was supported by Clarissa Dickson-Wright. He represented himself as a "liberal Tory", but The Independent reported he was "not getting much help from the party's big guns". Hillman came second behind the Liberal Democrat Julian Huppert with 12,829 votes.

From 2010 to 2013 he was a special adviser in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills when Willets was Science Minister. As a special adviser Hillman helped introduce higher university tuition fees.

Since January 2014 he has been the director of a think tank, the Higher Education Policy Institute in Oxford. and he became a fellow of another alma mater, Queen Mary University of London, in 2016. From 2015 to 2018 he was a school governor at Haddenham St Mary's. He has been a trustee of the National Foundation for Educational Research since April 2018 and he is a member of the Higher Education Policy Development Group at the British Academy. He was previously a research fellow with Policy Exchange. While a teacher in London he lived in Covent Garden. They have children

Works Adam Bogdanor, David Willetts MP, Nicholas Hillman, Left Out, Left Behind. Policy Exchange, 2003 David Willetts and Nicholas Hillman, Tax Credits: Do They Add Up? Politeia, 2002 Nicholas Hillman; Edited by Dr Oliver Marc Hartwich, Quelling the Pensions Storm: Lessons from the past, March 20, 2008 The Guardian columnist Nicholas Hillman, "Public schools and the Fleming report of 1944: shunting the first-class carriage on to an immense siding?." History of Education 41#2 (2012): 235–255.