Nicholas Piers Huxley Hillman is an English higher education policy adviser, previously a school history teacher and special adviser for the Conservatives.
10 Facts About Nick Hillman
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Nick Hillman has been the director of the Higher Education Policy Institute since 2014.
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Nick Hillman received an MA in contemporary British history at Queen Mary University of London, before going into politics.
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Nick Hillman 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.
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Nick Hillman was previously a research fellow with Policy Exchange.
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Nick Hillman stood for the Conservatives in the 2002 local elections in Hammersmith Broadway Ward, coming sixth in a three-seat election with 528 votes.
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Nick Hillman was the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Cambridge in 2010, selected from six candidates in an open primary in December 2009 after Richard Normington stepped down as candidate.
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Nick Hillman represented himself as a "liberal Tory", but The Independent reported he was "not getting much help from the party's big guns".
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Nick Hillman came second behind the Liberal Democrat Julian Huppert with 12,829 votes.
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Nick Hillman met his wife while they were undergraduates and they married in Cambridge.