Rohan Silva

Rohan Silva is Senior Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister in UK. He was previously Senior Policy Adviser for the 2010 General Election and Economic Adviser to the Shadow Chancellor George Osborne. Prior to this, Rohan was a Policy Analyst at HM Treasury, the UK ministry of finance.

Rohan works across all areas of government policy, but has a particular passion for technology and innovation. He has led the development of key policies to improve the environment for enterprise in the UK, such as the EIS tax changes announced in Budget 2011, the Entrepreneur Visa, the Hargreaves Review of IP and the development of the Tech City cluster. Rohan is also driving the creative use of technology in government, for example through opening up government procurement, using crowdsourcing platforms to develop policy and setting government data free.

In September 2011, Rohan was appointed as a Policy Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He is also a trustee of the Whitechapel Art Gallery, the Battersea Arts Centre, Entrepreneur First and the Citizenship Foundation, and serves on the advisory board of Nick Hornby's 'Ministry of Stories'.