US EditionRishi Sunak Joins Microsoft, Anthropic as Senior Adviser
Sunak will provide strategic advice on macroeconomic and geopolitical trends while donating earnings to his numeracy charity and avoiding lobbying or UK policy advice, Acoba said.
- Rishi Sunak has joined Microsoft as a paid part-time senior adviser, providing strategic perspectives on macro-economic and geopolitical trends.
- Sunak must not lobby the government on Microsoft's behalf and will not advise on UK policy matters, as stated in the Acoba report.
- Sunak will donate his salary to The Richmond Project, a charity for numeracy skills he co-founded with Akshata Murty.
- Brad Smith, Microsoft president, previously expressed concerns about the UK's confidence linked to Sunak's new role, but Sunak's spokesman countered these claims as unfounded.
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