Chris Philp

Chris Philp was the Chairman of the Bow Group in 2004-5, a British centre-right think tank.

Philp was educated at St Olave's Grammar School and Oxford University, where he studied physics and was editor of "Cherwell".

After university Philp worked at McKinsey & Company. He then left to start Blueheath, a distribution company. In 2003 he was voted by Ernst and Young and "The Times" as their emerging entrepreneur of the year.

Philp has co-edited a book on inner city policy, "Go Zones" (2004) and "Conservative Revival" (2006) proposing a new direction for the Conservative Party, described as David Cameron's personal manifesto [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/conservatives/story/0,,1756191,00.html] . He worked at Conservative Party headquarters during the 2005 general election.

Philp is active in Camden Conservative Party and was successfully elected as a local councillor for Camden Council in the UK local elections, 2006, for Gospel Oak, Hampstead. Troubles in his campaign were reported in "The Guardian"'s Diary, whereby several potential voters were disgruntled to find Philp's hand delivered campaign literature had been intercepted by an unknown third party and put into the post without payment, costing each household £1.21 to retrieve the material from the Post Office [http://politics.guardian.co.uk/backbench/story/0,,1748964,00.html] .

External links

* [http://www.camdenconservatives.com Local Conservative Party campaign page]
* [http://www.chrisphilp.co.uk Chris Philp homepage]