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Wednesday, July 8, 2020

UK's Economics Minister/Chancellor of Exchequer

Rishi Sunak: Britain’s Economic Jedi Who Could Be Premier

The crisis chancellor trying to save Britain from economic cataclysm
Background of UK's Chancellor of Exchequer:
“At Lincoln College, Oxford, he avoided student politics, preferring the investment society. Understanding how the economy works, understanding how businesses work, how to support them, how to help them grow – that intellectually I find incredibly fulfilling,” he has said. Having earned a First in politics, philosophy and economics, he spent three years as a junior analyst with the investment bank Goldman Sachs. He then obtained an MBA as a Fulbright Scholar at California’s Stanford University, joined a leading hedge fund called TCI, and left with several colleagues in 2009 to form another hedge fund firm, Theleme Partners, which was set up with an initial £700m in funding”.

The Economist on Rishi Sunak
“The chancellor of the exchequer is a champion of globalisation who has been brought to power by a wave of nationalism”