Rishi Sunak is a political activist from the United Kingdom who is known to have served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from the year 2020 to the year 2022, having previously served as Chief secretary to the Treasury from the year 2019 to the year 2020. Rishi was born on May 12, 1980 in Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, United Kingdom.
Born in Southampton, Rishi Sunak’s parents are known to be Indian parents who had emigrated from East Africa. He had his education at Winchester College. He was known to have subsequently read philosophy, politics as well as economics at Lincoln College at the time.
He was elected to represent Richmond (Yorks) in the general election of 2015, and he worked as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Government in Theresa May’s second administration. He cast three yes votes for May’s Brexit withdrawal deal.
Between 2001 to 2004, Sunak worked as an analyst for the financial institution Goldman Sachs. He then worked for The Children’s Investment Fund Management, a hedge fund management company, where he was made a partner in September 2006.
In October 2014, Sunak was chosen to represent the Conservatives in Richmond (Yorks). Prior to the next general election, William Hague, a former party leader, first secretary of state, and foreign secretary, decided to resign from his position.
What Nationality is Rishi Sunak Parents?
Indian parents Yashvir and Usha Sunak welcomed Sunak into the world on May 12, 1980 in Southampton. The oldest of three siblings, he is. His mother Usha was born in Tanganyika, which eventually became a part of Tanzania, and his father Yashvir was born in the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya (current-day Kenya) and raised there.
