The Rt. Hon. the Lord Hill of Oareford CBE

The Rt. Hon. the Lord Hill of Oareford CBE, Director, Intercontinental Exchange
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Lord Jonathan Hill joined the Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE) Board of Directors in September 2025. He serves on the Board of Directors of ICE Endex Markets B.V., a Netherlands-based regulated futures and options exchange, which is a subsidiary of ICE. Lord Hill is expected to join the Board of Directors of ICE Futures Europe, the London-based global futures and options exchange and a subsidiary of ICE, subject to regulatory approval.


Lord Hill brings over thirty years of extensive governmental, international policy and political experience. He has served as a Member of the House of Lords Financial Services Regulation Select Committee since 2024.  He served as the Lead Non-Executive Director at HM Treasury, the U.K. government’s economic and finance ministry, from 2017 to 2024.  Lord Hill was European Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and the Capital Markets Union from 2014 to 2016. In that role, he had overall responsibility for financial regulation across the EU and represented the EU in international negotiations. Before that, Lord Hill served in the British Cabinet as Leader of the House of Lords and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 2013 to 2014.  From 2010 to 2013, he served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools in the Conservative-Lib Dem Government.  In 1998, he founded a strategic communications consultancy, which he subsequently sold and left to become a government minister in 2010. Prior to 1998, Lord Hill was special adviser to Cabinet Minister Kenneth Clarke and Political Secretary to the Conservative Prime Minister John Major. 


Lord Hill earned a Master of Arts degree in History from Cambridge University.


Lord Hill was granted a life peerage in May 2010 and is a member of the House of Lords.