Paul Marshall (financier)

Paul Marshall (born August 2, 1959) is a financier and philanthropist. He is co-founder and Chairman of Marshall Wace LLP, one of Europe's largest hedge fund groups. Marshall Wace was founded in 1997 by Paul Marshall and Ian Wace ["Computer system gives fund a route to the top" The Times October 15, 2005 http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/article578554.ece] . Funds managed by Marshall Wace have won multiple investment awards [EuroHedge awards 2004 - http://www.hedgefundintelligence.com/Event.aspx?ProductID=7090&print=true&ElementID=5002] and the company has become one of the world's leading managers of equity long/short strategies.

Marshall is also a co-founder and Trustee of ARK, one of Britain's fastest growing children's charities, and a founder Trustee of Every Child a Chance ["From richer to poorer" The Times, July 22nd, 2007 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article2115172.ece] . There he has taken particular interest in their extensive AIDS treatment programmes in South Africa and their involvement in providing secondary school "academies" in the UK. Marshall Chair's the Management Committee of liberal think tank, CentreForum. CentreForum was relaunched under Marshall's Chairmanship in 2005. ["£1 million boost for Lib Dem think tank" - The Times, June 28th 2005]

Paul Marshall has a longstanding involvement with Britain's Liberal Democrats Party. [The Lib Dems' sugar daddy - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2006/03/05/ccprof05.xml] He was Research Assistant to Charles Kennedy, MP, former leader of the Liberal Democrats in 1985 and stood for Parliament for the SDP/Liberal Alliance in Fulham in 1987.

He was founder Chairman of the City Liberal Democrats, and more recently Chairman of the Liberal Democrat Business Forum. He is an Adviser to Nick Clegg MP, the current leader of the Liberal Democrats. He has made numerous appearances on current affairs programmes such as BBC Radio 4's Any Questions. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/anyquestions_transcripts_20080222.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/anyquestions_transcripts_20060210.shtml ]

Publications include: "The Market Failures Review" (Editor - 1999), "The Orange Book" (co-editor with David Laws, MP - 2005), "Britain After Blair" (co-editor with Julian Astle, David Laws, MP, Alasdair Murray),"Aiming Higher: a better future for England's schools" (co-author with Jennifer Moses, 2006) and "Tackling Educational Failure" (2007).

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