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In 2012, Shakespeare was appointed as Chairman of the Data Strategy Board (Dictionary of Scientific Biography), the advisory body that was set up by the government to maximise value of data for users across the United Kingdom. In October 2012, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and Cabinet Office ministers announced that he would lead an independent review of Public Sector Information. The "Shakespeare Review: an Independent Review of Public Sector Information" was published in 2013. He is the former owner of the websites ConservativeHome (now owned by Lord Ashcroft) and PoliticsHome (now owned by Dods Parliamentary Communications Limited) which he launched in April 2008 after closing down his Internet television channel 18 Doughty Street.
He was named one of the Top 20 Most Influential People in Politics in the Debrett"s 500 2015.
When he was five years old, the family moved to the United Kingdom, where he was educated at Christ"s Hospital school near Horsham, West Sussex. Stephan was also an artist (as Stephan Kukowski) creating The Brunch Museum together with the fluxus artist George Brecht, first exhibited in London in 1976.
He became a teacher and headmaster in Los Angeles, California in the 1980s. After returning home to the United Kingdom from the United States, he became involved in politics, first as a political commentator and then as Jeffrey Archer’s Campaign Director during and after his failed London mayoral campaign.
He was also a Conservative Party pollster.
In the 1997 general election, Shakespeare was the Conservative candidate for Colchester though he was defeated by Bob Russell with a majority of 1,551. In 2000, Shakespeare founded with Nadhim Zahawi. In 2001, predicted Labour’s 10-point general election victory to within one percentage point. expanded its business in 2006-2007 by acquiring market research businesses in the Middle East, the United States, Germany and Scandinavia.
The company further expanded in 2010 and 2011, acquiring two further businesses in the United States.
In 2011, the company established itself in Paris, France. In 2014, acquired Asia-Pacific based business, Decision Fuel.
As of October 2014, Shakespeare owned about 6 percent of "s shares. In July 2008, The Guardian listed Shakespeare as among the top 100 media personalities in the United Kingdom, calling him "the pollster with the uncanny ability of getting it right.".
After graduating from Oxford, he took a one-year teaching course in Kingston upon Thames, during which time he was a member of the Socialist Workers" Student Society.
He is currently a member of the Government’s Public Sector Transparency Board and a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, London.