The Lord O'Shaughnessy | |
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| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health | |
| In office 21 December 2016 – 31 December 2018 | |
| Prime Minister | Theresa May |
| Preceded by | The Baron Prior of Brampton |
| Succeeded by | The Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford |
| Lord-in-Waiting Government Whip | |
| In office 21 December 2016 – 11 June 2017 | |
| Prime Minister | Theresa May |
| Preceded by | The Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen |
| Succeeded by | The Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 22 October 2015 Life Peerage | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1976-03-26)26 March 1976 (age 49) |
| Political party | Conservative |
James Richard O'Shaughnessy, Baron O'Shaughnessy (born 26 March 1976) is a BritishConservative politician and member of theHouse of Lords. He is the current Chair ofCambridge University Health Partners.[1] He authored the 2010 Conservative Party Manifesto, was Director of theNumber 10 Policy Unit and served as a Minister at theDepartment of Health and Social Care.[2][3][4] O'Shaughnessy is now a senior partner at Newmarket Strategy, a medical consultancy which he co-founded in 2021.
O'Shaughnessy was born on 26 March 1976 inTaplow,Buckinghamshire, England.[5] He was educated inBerkshire atClaires Court School and thenWellington College. He went up toSt Hugh's College, Oxford to readphilosophy, politics and economics, graduating in 1998 with aBachelor of Arts (BA) degree: as per tradition, his BA was promoted to aMaster of Arts (MA Oxon) degree.[5]
O'Shaughnessy worked atPolicy Exchange, where he wrote a number of papers on education policy – including a 2005 paper outlining proposals for a pupil premium for disadvantaged children, which was picked up by both the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats in the Coalition government.[6][7] He was Director of theConservative Research Department from 2007 to 2010, succeedingGeorge Bridges, Baron Bridges of Headley, and authored the Conservative Party’s general election manifesto.[8]
A formerDowning Streetaide, he was Director of theNumber 10 Policy Unit underPrime MinisterDavid Cameron from May 2010 to October 2011. Following the general election in May that year, he led the development and implementation of the Programme for Government in theCameron–Clegg coalition between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.
Created alife peer on 1 October 2015, he took thetitleBaron O'Shaughnessy,ofMaidenhead in theRoyal County of Berkshire.[9] He made hismaiden speech on 26 November 2015 during a debate on freedom of speech at universities.[10] He served as aLord-in-Waiting (i.e. Government Whip in the House of Lords) from 21 December 2016[11] to 11 June 2017 and asParliamentary Under Secretary of State at theDepartment of Health and Social Care from 21 December 2016 until 31 December 2018.[12] As Minister his responsibilities included implementing the Life Science Industrial Strategy, delivering a new pricing scheme with the pharmaceutical industry and chairing the National Genomics Board.[13]
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In March 2021, Lord O'Shaughnessy co-founded Newmarket Strategy, a medical consultancy.[14] He is a board member of Health Data Research UK,[15] a Visiting Professor atImperial College London's Institute of Global Health Innovation, and a Senior Research Fellow in Education at the Jubilee Centre at theUniversity of Birmingham.[16][17][18] O'Shaughnessy is also Patron and Strategic Adviser to the Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission.[19] He is a member of theUniversity of Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy Advisory Council.[20]
In May 2023, he published the O'Shaughnessy Review of Commercial Clinical Trials in the United Kingdom, which was commissioned by HM Government in February of that year.[21]
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