Paul Marshall (investor)

Sir
Paul Marshall
Marshall in 2023
Born
Paul Roderick Clucas Marshall

(1959-08-02) 2 August 1959 (age 65)
Ealing, London, England
EducationMerchant Taylors' School, Northwood
Alma materSt John's College, Oxford
INSEAD
OccupationHedge fund manager
Known forCo-founder of Marshall Wace Asset Management
SpouseSabina de Balkany
Children2, including Winston
RelativesPenny Marshall (sister)
AwardsKnight bachelor

Sir Paul Roderick Clucas Marshall (born 2 August 1959) is a British hedge fund manager and philanthropist. According to the Sunday Times Rich List in 2020, he had an estimated net worth of £630 million.[1] In 2024, he topped The Sunday Times Giving List, having donated £145.1 million over 12 months to various charities.[2]

Marshall was a member and donor of the Liberal Democrats, and in 2004 co-edited the influential Orange Book alongside a number of prominent Liberal Democrat politicians. In 2015 he left the party due to his support for Brexit, and subsequently donated to the Brexit campaign and the Conservative Party. His ownership of UnHerd and GB News led the New Statesman to name him as the seventeenth most powerful right-wing political figure in the UK in 2023.[3] The Financial Times described him as "an enthusiastic combatant in the UK's own version of America's culture wars".[4]

He was knighted in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to education and philanthropy.[5]

  1. ^ Times, The Sunday (12 May 2019). "Rich List 2019: profiles 201–249=". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  2. ^ Rodrigues, Francisca Kellett | Nick (17 May 2024). "Paul Marshall is Britain's most generous man — but he doesn't want to talk about it". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 17 May 2024.
  3. ^ Statesman, New (27 September 2023). "The New Statesman's right power list". New Statesman. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
  4. ^ "Paul Marshall, the financier turned media baron bankrolling GB News". Financial Times. 9 March 2024. Archived from the original on 9 March 2024. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  5. ^ "No. 61608". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 June 2016. p. B2.