Chris Philp

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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, and Clearstone, a HGV driver training company. In 2003 he was voted by Ernst and Young and The Times as their emerging entrepreneur of the year.

In addition to his work with the Bow Group, 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 [1]. He has authored several papers on health and education. He worked at Conservative Party headquarters during the 2005 general election and also writes regularly for the Evening Standard and has written for the Daily Telegraph.

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 campaign literature had been posted without payment, costing each household £1.21 to retrieve the unsolicited material from the Post Office [2].