Rishi Sunak has become UK’s next Prime Minister and people are quite curious to know other details about Sunak including his height and education
Let’s have a look at new leader Rishi Sunak including his education, career, height and personal life as well as a brief history at the UK prime ministers by their height.
Rishi Sunak Height, Religion, Parents And Education After He Becomes New UK PM In 2022
Rishi Sunak And Other UK Minister’s Height
People are now used to seeing Rishi Sunak leaving 11 Downing Street with his black briefcase. Rishi Sunak is 170 cm tall which means that he is five feet and six inches tall. In comparison with him Boris Johnson is taller than Rishi as he is 175 cm tall which means five feet and 8.9 inches. Theresa May is around 172 cm which is five feet six inches. Liz Truss is around five ft five inches tall that is 165 inches.
David Cameron is six feet and one inch tall while Tony Blair is approximately 182 cm which is 6 feet tal. Gordon Brown is 180 cm which is 5 feet of 11 inches.
Rishi is one of the second shortest male prime ministers of the UK to date after Winston Churchill who was about 168.9 cm tall which means 5 feet 6 inches.
Rishi Sunak’s Education And Career
Rishi was born on the 12th of May in 1980 to his mother Usha who was a chemist worker and his father Yashvir who is a NHS GP in Southampton. He read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Winchester College Oxford and earned an MBA from university of Stanford based in California. He returned to the UK to work as an analyst for the investment bank Goldman Sachs from year 2001 to 2004.
Rishi then joined the hedge fund management firm Children’s Investment Fund Management and became a partner in year 2006. The new Prime Minister joined Conservative Party in October of 2014 when he took over Richmond (Yorks). Other roles he held include head of the BME Research Unit of Policy Exchange and chief secretary to the Treasury. Rishi was later on was appointed to the latter role in 2019. He is a Hindu by religion.
Rishi Sunak’s Wife
Rishi got married to Britain-based Indian fashion designer named Akshata Murty who is the daughter of Indian businessman and billionaire N. R. Narayana Murthy.
Akshata Murthy got a degree in Economics and French from Claremont McKenna College based in California. Akshata eventually went on to establish her own fashion company named Akshata Designs which closed down within 3 years of trading.