"Rishi Sunak has taken up senior part-time advisor roles at tech giant Microsoft and artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic. The former prime minister has been told he must not lobby ministers on behalf of the companies by the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba), an independent watchdog which oversees the activities of former government figures. Sunak - who remains the MP for Richmond and Northallerton - will donate payments for the jobs to a charity he recently founded, the watchdog said."
"In letters of advice sent to Sunak by Acoba and published on Thursday, his role at Microsoft was described as providing "high- level strategic perspectives" on geopolitical trends. The watchdog said it had been informed by Sunak that his advisory role at Anthropic - an AI firm seeking to compete with companies like OpenAI, Google and Meta - would be "akin to operating as an internal think tank"."
Rishi Sunak has accepted senior part-time advisory roles at Microsoft and Anthropic while remaining MP for Richmond and Northallerton. The Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba) has prohibited him from lobbying ministers on behalf of those companies and instructed him not to advise on bidding for UK contracts for two years from his last ministerial day. Sunak will donate payments from the roles to a charity he recently founded. Acoba described the Microsoft role as offering high-level strategic perspectives on geopolitical trends and said the Anthropic role would be akin to operating as an internal think tank. Sunak also holds a paid advisory role at Goldman Sachs and founded the Richmond Project to tackle numeracy problems.
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