Overview

• This appointment is Sunak’s first major private sector role since resigning as Conservative leader after the July 2024 election defeat and follows fellowships at Oxford’s Blavatnik School and Stanford’s Hoover Institution.
• He will work with firm executives to counsel clients worldwide on macroeconomic and geopolitical developments and help strengthen internal learning and development.
• The Advisory Committee on Business Appointments has barred him for one year from lobbying government or using ministerial contacts and from advising on matters linked to foreign governments or sovereign wealth funds.
• Sunak has pledged to donate all compensation from Goldman Sachs to the Richmond Project, the numeracy charity he co-founded.
• His move underscores a wider pattern of former senior UK policymakers shifting into finance roles after leaving office.