Rishi Sunak and his tech heiress wife, Akshata Murty, are worth an estimated £730 million ($844 million).
Millions in the U.K. are facing a cost-of-living crisis, raising questions over multimillionaire Sunak's ability to understand the experience of ordinary Britons.Dan Kitwood | Getty Images News | Getty Images
LONDON — Britain's new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak made history as the country's first leader of color and its youngest in recent centuries, taking office aged just 42. He also breaks the record for being the wealthiest-ever occupant of Downing Street — with a fortune estimated to exceed that of King Charles III.
Sunak, who on Monday replaced Liz Truss as leader of the U.K.'s ruling Conservative Party, previously worked as a Goldman Sachs investment banker and then a hedge fund manager, before becoming a politician eight years ago. But he owes much of his vast fortune to his wife, Akshata Murty, a tech heiress whose father, N. R. Narayana Murthy — who spells his surname differently — founded the Indian IT company Infosys.Together, the couple has an estimated fortune of £730 million , according toThe majority of Murty's wealth derives from her 0.93% stake in Infosys — which currently has a market cap of around $75 billion. However, Murty also owns Catamaran Ventures U.K.
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