Stuart Shilson

Stuart James Shilson (born 1963), was the Assistant Private Secretary to The Queen in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom from 2001 until 2004, before returning to management consultants McKinsey & Company, where he formerly worked.

Previously he had worked for five years as a commercial barrister and for one year on secondment from McKinsey to the Cabinet Office from 1999. Shilson is now a director of McKinsey in London.

Educated at Balliol College, Oxford, Shilson graduated with a first class degree in Mathematics and Philosophy, before pursuing further studies in Computer Science, receiving an MSc degree from Oxford, and in Law and Criminal Justice (MPhil (Cantab)).

Shilson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS) in 1989 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) in 1996.

A liveryman of the Drapers' Company, Shilson also serves as Sub Prior of the Most Venerable Order of Saint John.