Richard Sharp
Richard Sharp is the ex-chairman of Goldman Sachs Principal Investment Area in Europe. He is also a director of the right-wing Centre for Policy Studies think tank. [1]
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Career
Sharp worked for Goldman Sachs for 22 years, leaving in 2006. As Chairman of Goldman Sachs’ Principal Investment Area in Europe, he had responsibility for European Private Equity and Mezzanine Funds.
Activities
In August 2010 Sharp was one of four City figures invited by UK chancellor George Osborne to join an “independent challenge group”, whose remit is to “question the unquestionable” in the Treasury's austerity drive.
Donations to the Conservative Party
Sharp donated £404,000 to the Conservatives between 2002 and March 2011. [2]
He is also a funder and supporter of London Mayor Boris Johnson, both personally and through his Sharp Foundation, and is a member of the Mayor of London’s Legacy Board of Advisors. [1][3]
Biography
Sharp is married to Victoria, with whom he founded London Music Masters, a London based charity.[1]
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Affiliations
- Sharp Foundation
- Royal Academy Trust - chairman
- Royal Academy of Arts - has been involved with since 2004.
- Non-executive Chairman of Huntsworth PLC
- Mayor's Fund for London - funder [3]
- Member of the Mayor of London’s Legacy Board of Advisors
- Deputy Chairman of the Royal Marsden Cancer Campaign
- Trustee of the Royal Marsden Hospital
- Director of the Institute of Cancer Research and a
- Director of International Rescue Committee UK
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Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Richard Sharp, Centre for Policy Studies, accessed 16 march 2011
- ↑ Electoral Commission, [link], March 2011
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Dave Hill, Johnson and Veronica Wadley: Victoria Sharp and the Mayor's Fund, guardian.co.uk, 18 June 2010, accessed 16 March 2010
