Full Name
Mr. Varun Chandra
Job Title
PM's Special Adviser on Business & Investment
Current Employer
No10
Speaker Bio
In 2024 Varun was appointed by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as his Special Adviser on Business and Investment. He also serves on the board of the government’s Office for Investment. Previously, he served as the global managing partner of Hakluyt, advising leaders of the world’s largest companies and investors on the opportunities and risks facing their businesses. He was the founder and chairman of a venture capital firm, and also worked in investment and merchant banking. Trained at Lehman Brothers, he went on to help build a regulated advisory firm for former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, and a merchant bank in New York with a global family office. Varun was previously a trustee of the Young Vic theatre, the British Asian Trust, the MCC Foundation, Sesame Workshop, the Royal Academy of Arts, and the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity – and served on the board of Longview Innovation.
Varun Chandra