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Microsoft former prime minister hired Rishi SunakBut the role comes with a condition.
Mr Sunak has joined American Tech veteran as part-time senior advisor.
In the role, he will give company leaders a “high-level strategic perspective on macro-economic and geopolitical trends and how they intersect with innovation, regulation and digital transformation.”
He will also speak at programs.
However, Sunak has been told he should not lobby for Government On behalf of the firm.
According to one, he will not even advise on UK policy matters Akoba (Advisory Committee on Professional Appointments) report, and will donate his salary to his and his wife Akshata Murthy’s numerical skills charity. Richmond Project.
Mr Sunak was Prime Minister between October 2022 and July 2024.
Last year it was thought that he was looking for a job silicon Valley, CaliforniaAfter his general election defeat.
But his last appearance as Prime Minister in questions conservative Mr Sunak, the leader, vowed to spend more time in “the greatest place on earth”, referring to his Richmond and Northallerton constituency, and said: “If anyone needs me, I’ll be in Yorkshire.”
Acoba, the business watchdog, has said Mr Sunak should not give advice to or on behalf of seattle-Microsoft will remain based on government work or its contracts till the end of next year.
They have also been asked not to lobby the government nor use their whitehall contacts during that time, and to limit his work to “providing advice on strategy, macro-economic and geopolitical matters that do not conflict with his activities in Number 10”.
The time Mr Sunak has spent on the opposition benches – more than a year – “may have helped to reduce the prominence and currency of the information” he had access to, cabinet Office Told Akoba.
The Microsoft chairman urged Mr Sunak to “take a hard look” at competition rules brad smith In 2023, when Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) prevented the company from taking charge Duty Producer Activision Blizzard.
Mr Smith said the move had shaken “confidence” in Britain, and Mr Sunak’s official spokesman responded at the time that “claims like this are not borne out by the facts”.
Microsoft later completed a deal with CMA approval.
Mr Sunak has also played a role at San Francisco-based Anthropic, which developed cloud artificial intelligence (AI) models.
Has also become a senior advisor to Goldman Sachs Since leaving the office, where he previously worked between 2001 and 2004.