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A short🧵on the business career (2001–2015) of Rishi Sunak.
2001-2004: Sunak worked as an analyst for the investment bank Goldman Sachs.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rishi_Sun…

2004-2009 (a partner from 2006): The Children's Investment Fund (TCI), a British hedge fund management firm founded by Chris Hohn in 2003
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Child…

About billionaire "Sir" Chris Hohn.
"As of January 2022, Hohn was the single biggest individual donor to Extinction Rebellion."
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hoh…

"Extinction Rebellion donor Chris Hohn’s TCI fund, known as one of the most aggressive activist investors, made a 23% gain in 2021."
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theguardian.com/business/2022/…

Co-founder of TCI in 2003 with Chris Huhn was Patrick Degorce, who before becoming a hedge fund manager was an officer in the French Navy.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_D…

"Degorce grabbed headlines while at TCI when in 2007 he sent a letter to Dutch bank ABN Amro calling for the firm to be broken up after the management, he said, had “failed to deliver” on plans to cut costs.
The letter led to the breakup of the bank and its
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subsequent disastrous takeover by Royal Bank of Scotland.
In 2008 TCI with Degorce on board, made giant profits in a 'shorting' attack on doomed UK lender Northern Rock, betting that the bank’s shares would fall."
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cityam.com/hedgie-degorce…

When in 2009 Degorce left TCI to start a new hedge fund, Theleme Partners, Rishi Sunak went with him.
CityAM: "The name [Theleme] probably derives from the fictional Abbey of Thélème in the works of French renaissance writer Rabelais – a utopia with no rules in which
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inhabitants behaved virtuously since there were no constraints leading them to desire pleasures they had been denied.
"In fund management terms this will likely translate to an 'unconstrained' management style in which ... fund benchmarks are ignored"
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Under Degorce and Sunak, Theleme was an early investor in a small biotech company called Moderna (as in mRNA). "By June 2022 Theleme had amassed over 6 million shares of Moderna stock, making it the company’s largest shareholder. The UK government
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expose-news.com/2023/01/24/sun…

also coincidentally announced a 10-year partnership with Moderna within two months of Sunak becoming Prime Minister of the UK.
This deal has a huge financial benefit for Theleme, the company co-founded by Sunak. The partnership and increased demand for Moderna’s
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vaccines [sic] has caused the company’s stock price to skyrocket, resulting in a significant profit for Theleme, thanks to its large holding of Moderna shares."

Finally, the Infosys connection.
Sunak met Akshata Murty while both were studying at Stanford University (USA).
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They married in 2009. Sunak's father-in-law N. R. Narayana Murthy is the founder of the technology company Infosys, in which Murty owns a stake bringing in millions annually in dividends.
From 2013-2015 Sunak himself was a director of the investment firm
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Catamaran Ventures, owned by his father-in-law. (In Sunak's Wiki profile)

Infosys is a technology partner of the #WEF and a leader in the field of Digital IDs and the move towards CBDCs.
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