{"id":26556,"date":"2026-05-01T12:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/26556\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T12:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:42:07","slug":"ex-united-kingdom-prime-minister-to-speak-at-claremont-mckenna-college-graduation-daily-bulletin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/26556\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-United Kingdom prime minister to speak at Claremont McKenna College graduation \u2013 Daily Bulletin"},"content":{"rendered":"

A power couple,\u00a0class of 2002 alumna Akshata Murty and her husband \u2014 former United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak \u2014 will speak at Claremont McKenna College\u2019s Saturday, May 16, graduation.<\/p>\n

Sunak, the first British Asian to hold the position, served as the 57th prime minister of the United Kingdom from 2022 to 2024 and is now a parliament member. His tenure as prime minister was \u201cmarked by a return to economic stability and forging a global leadership position in new technologies, including artificial intelligence,\u201d a Wednesday, April 1, college news release states.<\/p>\n

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Murty has been on the college\u2019s Board of Trustees since 2011 and served on the school\u2019s Advisory Council for the Berger Institute for Individual and Social Development.<\/p>\n

Claremont McKenna College is part of The Claremont Colleges, a system of seven private liberal arts universities based in the city.<\/p>\n

During Sunak\u2019s term as prime minister, Murty launched Lessons at 10, which allowed United Kingdom students to visit No. 10 Downing St., the prime minister\u2019s historical home, to learn about its history and bring education to life with help from guests and experts, the release states.<\/p>\n

The two also established The Richmond Project, a philanthropic organization in the United Kingdom that provides a gateway to understand mathematics.<\/p>\n

The couple founded the Murty Sunak Quantitative and Computing Lab at the college, which opened in 2018 as a hub for data and computation. They also established an endowed philosophy professorship that allowed the program to double its capacity, the release said.<\/p>\n

Murty and Sunak were guided by a shared \u201cpassion for education,\u201d and a desire to build confidence around data and numbers to \u201csupport innovative solutions that drive social mobility,\u201d the release states.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndividually and as a team, Akshata and Rishi exemplify responsible leadership,\u201d Claremont Mckenna President Hiram Chodosh said in the release. \u201cFrom Rishi\u2019s service to the United Kingdom as Prime Minister and a current Member of Parliament, to Akshata\u2019s support of young entrepreneurs, education, arts and sciences, and varied philanthropic causes, they have both made a significant impact on business, government, and the professions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Murty earned a bachelor\u2019s in economics and French from the college in 2002, and a master of business administration from Stanford University, where she met Sunak before they married in 2009. From 2013 to 2023, she ran Catamaran Ventures UK, an investment platform primarily serving the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

Before becoming prime minister, Sunak served as chancellor of the Exchequer, a member of the British cabinet in charge of economics and financial matters. He led the country\u2019s economic response to COVID-19<\/a> from 2020 to 2022.<\/p>\n

Before entering politics, Sunak worked in finance at Goldman Sachs, The Children\u2019s Investment Fund and as co-founder of an investment firm supporting British businesses.<\/p>\n

He was educated at Winchester College and Oxford University, and has an master\u2019s in business administration from Stanford University, where he was a Fulbright scholar.<\/p>\n

Claremont McKenna College\u2019s 78th commencement will take place at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 16, at Pritzlaff Field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A power couple,\u00a0class of 2002 alumna Akshata Murty and her husband \u2014 former United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7846,11904,6446,28,11905,6610,2319,11906,18,11907,7682,5,6,1470],"class_list":{"0":"post-26556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-claremont","10":"tag-colleges","11":"tag-education","12":"tag-foothill-cities","13":"tag-graduation","14":"tag-higher-education","15":"tag-los-angeles-county","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-san-bernardino-county","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-universities"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116499378476429385","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}