Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has taken on academic roles at the University of Oxford and Stanford University. He joined Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government as a distinguished fellow and member of the world leaders circle, while at Stanford, he became a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, focusing on global security, economic policy, and technology. Sunak expressed excitement to contribute to research and policy on both sides of the Atlantic.
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