Episode 1017
Rishi Sunak
Fri, 2020-Feb-14 01:33 UTC
Length - 1:47
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With 330,522 views on Thursday, 13 February 2020 our article of the day is Rishi Sunak.
Rishi Sunak (born 12 May 1980) is a British politician who is currently serving as the Chancellor of the Exchequer since February 2020. He previously served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury from July 2019 to February 2020, and has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Richmond (Yorks) since the 2015 general election.
Born in Southampton, Hampshire to an Indian Punjabi family, his early education was at 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 he worked for investment bank Goldman Sachs, and later as a partner at the hedge fund management firm The Children's Investment Fund Management.
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