I) Rishi Sunak is one of the wealthiest politicians in the UK and has a net worth of over 700 million pounds.
An estimation made earlier this year revealed that Rishi Sunak’s wife (Akshata Murty) was richer than Queen Elizabeth II, whose personal wealth was about 350 million pounds ($460 million), according to the 2021 Sunday Times Rich List.
II) Rishi Sunak becomes UK’s first Indian-origin Hindu and the youngest PM in British history.
III) Rishi Sunak is the son-in-law of Infosys co-founder N R Narayana Murthy.
When he was 29, he also helped start a private investment firm called Theleme Partners and has worked with his father-in-law, and billionaire N.R Narayana Murthy, as a director of Catamaran Ventures.
NR Narayana Murthy, Infosys founder and father-in-law of Britain’s next Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, congratulated the latter on being chosen to lead the country. “Congratulations to Rishi. We are proud of him, and we wish him success. We are confident he will do his best for the people of the United Kingdom,” he said.
IV) Mr. Sunak studied at Winchester College Oxford where he read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. He then took his education in Californian to earn an MBA as a Fulbright Scholar. He did this at Ivy League college, Stanford University.
V) Rishi married his wife, Akshata Murthy, in 2009 in Bangalore, India. She runs her own fashion label, Akshata Designs. Akshata is the daughter of billionaire N.R. Narayana Murty, a co-founder of the IT company Infosys.
Together the couple has two daughters, Krishna and Anoushka.
