{"id":26239,"date":"2023-11-04T07:30:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T07:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/berkshiredoulas.com\/?p=26239"},"modified":"2023-11-04T07:30:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T07:30:26","slug":"how-rishi-sunaks-wife-akshata-murty-made-her-millions-and-met-the-future-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berkshiredoulas.com\/politics\/how-rishi-sunaks-wife-akshata-murty-made-her-millions-and-met-the-future-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"How Rishi Sunaks wife Akshata Murty made her millions and met the future PM"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunak’s wife Akshata Murty will pay UK tax on overseas income<\/h3>\n

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Ms Murty emerged as Mr Sunak’s secret weapon at the Conservative Party Conference where she delivered a personal speech dedicated to her husband’s ambition, drive and love for Netflix shows.<\/p>\n

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What is Akshata Murty’s net worth?<\/h3>\n

Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty are Downing Street\u2019s richest inhabitants yet. The majority of Ms Murty’s net worth comes from Infosys, her family’s tech company, which is valued at around \u00a352billion.<\/p>\n

The Indian heiress, 43, has owned just over 0.9 per cent of the Bangalore-based group since 2015 \u2013 a stake that was worth an estimated \u00a3690million last year, according to the Sunday Times Rich List 2022.<\/p>\n

Mr Sunak and his wife originally entered the list when Sunak was still chancellor, with an estimated combined wealth of \u00a3730 million.<\/p>\n

But the couple is now estimated to be worth around \u00a3529million, almost a 30 percent decrease, after shares in Infosys lost nearly a quarter of their value.<\/p>\n

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How Akshata Murty met Rishi Sunak<\/h2>\n

Alongside benefiting from her father NR Narayana Murty, the PM\u2019s wife is a savvy businesswoman in her own right.<\/p>\n

She studied economics and French at Claremont McKenna College in California. The mother of two daughters then began working for Deloitte and Unilever and later began a Master of Business Administration at Stanford University where she met her now husband.<\/p>\n

Ms Murty also has a diploma in clothes manufacturing from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, a private design college in the US.<\/p>\n

She joined a Dutch \u201cclean technology incubator fund\u201d in San Francisco where she worked as marketing director during 2007. But she left soon after to begin her own fashion label called Akshata Designs. The company was not successful and collapsed within three years.<\/p>\n

A year later, in 2013, she became the director of venture capital fund Catamaran Ventures and helped to launch its London branch.<\/p>\n

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