Paul Ruddock

Sir Paul Ruddock (* before 1980 in Solihull , West Midlands , England , United Kingdom ) is a British finance manager and arts promoter.

Life

Ruddock studied law at Mansfield College , Oxford . He began his career in the financial world at Goldman Sachs in 1980 and moved to the Schroders finance house in London in 1984 . In 1998 he co-founded the Lansdowne Partners hedge fund , which he left in 2013. As part of the 2012 New-Year Honors he was on 29 February 2012 for the Knight Bachelor beaten. This honor was controversial given the fact that Ruddock had made substantial sums of money available to the Conservative Party for its previous election campaign.

Ruddock is married and has two daughters. His wife Jill is on the board of directors at Donmar Warehouse Theater in London and on the board of directors of the Art Museum at Bowdoin College in Brunswick , Maine , USA .

Arts and welfare activities

Ruddock has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London since 2007 , for which he has served as trustee since 2002. He is also Chairman of the Board of the British Museum , where he donated the Paul and Jill Ruddock Halls .

Ruddock is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a board member of the Burlington Magazine Foundation. He provided the funds for the establishment of the Paul and Jill Ruddock Performing Arts Center at King Edward's School in Birmingham , England. In the United States, he serves on the Board of Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and on the International Advisory Board of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore , Maryland .

Prizes and awards

2015: Chevalier des French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

Individual evidence

↑ Knights and Dames: RAE-SEK at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
↑ Kamal Ahmed: Lansdowne Partners chief Sir Paul Ruddock 'shocked' that New Years Honors List knighthood was controversial. In: The Telegraph. January 7, 2012.

personal data
SURNAME	Ruddock, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British finance manager and arts promoter
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH	Solihull , West Midlands , England , United Kingdom

[1] Knights and Dames: RAE-SEK at Leigh Rayment's Peerage

[2] Kamal Ahmed: Lansdowne Partners chief Sir Paul Ruddock 'shocked' that New Years Honors List knighthood was controversial. In: The Telegraph. January 7, 2012.