Alexander Deane is a British writer, political commentator and consultant. He is a regular commentator on Sky News and BBC Dateline London. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read English Literature, graduating in 2000, and at Griffith University in Australia, where he was a Rotary Scholar, and graduated with a MA in International Relations in 2002. He was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 2005. He served as Chief of Staff to David Cameron and Tim Collins during their respective periods as Shadow Secretary of State for Education.