Son of British health service worker, Oxford educated Rishi Sunak inherited public service from his parents and rose to become UK’s first Indian origin finance minister, replacing Pakistani-origin Sajid Javid.
Son-in-law of Infosys’ co-founder Narayana Murthy, Sunak was a career investment banker before dedicating his life to public service by entering politics by becoming a MP first time in 2015.
Sunak, 39, replaces Pakistani-origin Sajid Javid who resigned as the Chancellor of the Exchequer in a shock move in one of the biggest shakeups since Johnson won a thumping majority in the December 2019 general election.
He has been an elected representative of the UK Parliament for three times, beginning May 7, 2015.
“I was first elected as MP for Richmond (Yorks) in 2015 and re-elected to represent this area in June 2017 and December 2019. I was previously Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. I was appointed Chief Secretary to the Treasury in July 2019,” reads Sunak’s Facebook profile.
The UK-born son of a pharmacist mother and a National Health Service (NHS) general practitioner father is married to Murthy’s daughter Akshata Murthy, with whom he met in California and stayed there before moving back to London.