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Rish Sunak is a British Conservative Party MP, who was originally elected as a Member of Parliament in the Richmond (Yorks) constituency in 2015.
His father-in-law is billionaire founder of Indian IT giant, Infosys, NR Narayana Murthy.
Sunak experienced a meteoric rise, first to be selected for the “safest” Conservative seat in the UK, he would later become the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer in under five years.
Rishi Sunak (born 12 May 1980) is a British Conservative Party politician currently serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer, since February 2020.
He was appointed after the resignation of Sajid Javid during a cabinet reshuffle in 2020.
Sunak previously served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury under Javid from July 2019 to February 2020, and has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Richmond (Yorks) since the 2015 general election.
Sunak was nominated as the Conservative candidate in Richmond (Yorks), then the safest seat in the United Kingdom, after the retirement of William Hague MP. At this time, he had never stood as a political candidate for any party, at any level of politics.
Born in Southampton, Hampshire to an Indian Punjabi family, Sunak studied at the fee-paying Winchester College. Sunak subsequently studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Lincoln College, Oxford, and later gained an MBA from Stanford University as a Fulbright Scholar.
After graduating, Rishi Sunak worked for investment bank Goldman Sachs, and later as a partner at the hedge fund management firm The Children’s Investment Fund Management.
Sunak was born on 12 May 1980 in Southampton, Hampshire to Yashvir and Usha Sunak.
His grandparents were born in Punjab, India and emigrated from East Africa to the UK in the 1960s.
His father Yashvir was a general practitioner (GP) and his mother Usha was a pharmacist who ran a local pharmacy.
He is the eldest of three siblings.
Sunak was privately educated at Winchester College, an all-boys’ boarding school, where he was head boy.
He then studied PPE at Lincoln College, Oxford, graduating with a First in 2001.
In 2006, Sunak obtained an MBA from Stanford University, where he was a Fulbright scholar.
Sunak worked as an analyst for investment bank Goldman Sachs between 2001 and 2004.
He then worked for hedge fund management firm The Children’s Investment Fund Management, becoming a partner in September 2006.
He left in November 2009 to join former colleagues at new hedge fund firm Theleme Partners, which launched in October 2010 with an initial $700 million.
Sunak was also a director of investment firm Catamaran Ventures, owned by his father-in-law, Indian businessman N. R. Narayana Murthy, the founder of Indian IT giant, Infosys.
Sunak was selected as the Conservative candidate for Richmond (Yorks) in October 2014. The seat had previously been held by former leader of the party and foreign secretary William Hague, who chose to stand down at the next general election. Sunak had almost no political experience at this time.
In the same year, he was the head of centre-right think tank Policy Exchange’s Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Research Unit, for which he co-wrote a report on BME communities in the UK.
Policy Exchange was founded by prominent Conservative Party members, such as Michael Gove.
Sunak was elected as MP for the constituency in the 2015 general election with a majority of 19,550 (36.2%).
During the 2015–2017 parliament, Sunak was a member of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee.
He supported the UK leaving the European Union (EU) in the June 2016 membership referendum.
In the same year, he wrote a report for the Thatcherite think tank, the Centre for Policy Studies, supporting the establishment of free ports post-Brexit, and the following year wrote a report advocating for the creation of a retail bond market for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Sunak was re-elected as MP in the 2017 general election, with an increased majority of 23,108 (40.5%).
He was Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Local Government between January 2018 and July 2019.
Sunak voted for then Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit withdrawal agreement and voted against a referendum on any withdrawal agreement. He supported Boris Johnson in the 2019 Conservative Party leadership election and co-wrote an article in The Times newspaper with fellow MPs Robert Jenrick, and Oliver Dowden to advocate for Johnson during the campaign in June.
He was re-elected in the 2019 general election with an increased majority of 27,210 (47.2%).
During the election campaign, Sunak represented the Conservatives in both the BBC’s and ITV’s seven-way election debates, after Boris Johnson refused to participate.
Sunak was appointed as Chief Secretary to the Treasury by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on 24 July 2019. He became a member of the Privy Council the next day.
Sunak was promoted to Chancellor of the Exchequer on 13 February 2020 as part of a cabinet reshuffle, after the resignation of his predecessor Sajid Javid on the same day. Javid had resigned after being asked by Prime Minister Johnson to dismiss his advisers.
At this time, he had been an MP for fewer than five years.
Sunak’s first budget took place on 11 March 2020. This included announcements of £30 billion of additional spending of which £12 billion was allocated for mitigation of the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
Sunak married Akshata Murthy, the daughter of Indian billionaire and co-founder of Infosys, N. R. Narayana Murthy, in August 2009. They met while studying at Stanford University and have two daughters.
Rishi Sunak is 43 years old (birth date May 12, 1980).
Rishi Sunak was born in Hampshire, UK.
Rishi Sunak is not muslim, he is a Hindu, and has taken his oath at the House of Commons on the Bhagavad Gita since 2017.
Yes. Rishi Sunak is married to Akshata Murthy. The couple married in August 2009.
Yes. Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata, have two children, both girls.
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