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Roland Rudd (Roland Dacre Rudd) was born on 1 April, 1961 in Kensington, England, is a British public relations executive. Discover Roland Rudd's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 63 years old?

Popular As Roland Dacre Rudd
Occupation Public relations executive
Age 63 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 1 April, 1961
Birthday 1 April
Birthplace Kensington, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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1961

Roland Dacre Rudd (born April 1961) is the founder and chairman of Finsbury (formerly RLM Finsbury), a public relations firm.

Rudd was educated at Oxford University, becoming President of the Oxford Union before starting a career in journalism that he left to found Finsbury.

Rudd was born in April 1961, one of four children of Tony Rudd, a stockbroker; his sisters are Amanda, Melissa and Amber, who was a Conservative Party Member of Parliament until September 2019, when she left the party over its stance on Brexit; she then sat as an independent MP until standing down at the subsequent general election.

As a child he wanted to be Prime Minister.

He was educated at Millfield School.

He read philosophy and theology at Regent's Park College, Oxford, describing himself as "perhaps a lazy Christian."

He was elected president of the Oxford Union on his third attempt.

At Oxford he was friends with Hugo Dixon with whom he travelled to America to work on Walter Mondale's campaign for the Democratic Party nomination.

They transferred to rival Gary Hart when Mondale could not accommodate them.

Rudd is married to Sophie Hale, a designer of womenswear.

After graduating, Rudd worked as a policy coordinator for David Owen and the Social Democratic Party (he was the first SDP president of the Oxford Union).

He was a financial journalist at the Sunday Correspondent and the Financial Times.

At the Sunday Correspondent, Rudd became friends with Robert Peston, now political editor for ITV News, and they worked together at the Financial Times where the two were known as "the Pest and the Rat", Rudd taking the nickname in reference to the then popular children's television character Roland Rat.

1994

In 1994, Rudd left the Financial Times to found RLM Finsbury with Rupert Younger.

2001

He sold that company to WPP plc in 2001, making an estimated £40 million.

He continues as chairman of Finsbury and has a variety of other charitable and non-executive posts.

He is strongly in favour of British engagement with the European Union and has campaigned for electoral reform.

The firm was sold to Martin Sorrell's WPP plc in 2001 in a deal estimated to have earned Rudd £40 million.

Lord Mandelson is godfather to one of Rudd's children and Rudd campaigned for Mandelson in his Hartlepool constituency in the 2001 general election.

2007

Rudd was one of the "Four Wise Men" who advised Blair in 2007 on life after leaving office.

Rudd has also been linked to Ed Balls and Tessa Jowell of Labour, and Nick Clegg of the Liberal Democrats.

2011

Rudd told The Independent in 2011, "I was at the Financial Times, writing about M&A (mergers and acquisitions) and conglomerates. The takeover world always fascinated me. I had wanted to build my own business and could see a gap for a financial PR company which was utterly professional. Right from the start, I hired only the most financially literate staff and was determined to have the top FTSE clients."

Finsbury reportedly ended up with more than a quarter of FTSE100 companies as clients.

In 2011, RLM Finsbury merged with Robinson Lerer & Montgomery of New York.

Rudd continued as chairman of the merged firm.

Rudd believes in electoral reform and campaigned in support of the introduction of the Alternative vote system in the British referendum of 2011.

The proposal failed.

He is strongly in favour of British engagement with Europe, and is chairman of Business for New Europe, a member of the Centre for European Reform's advisory board, and Chair of the People's Vote campaign.

As chairman of the People's Vote campaign, he oversaw a boardroom coup that ended up destroying the campaign at a critical juncture in UK politics.

Rudd is a supporter of the Labour Party and is close to a number of Labour politicians.

2014

In 2014, RLM Finsbury rebranded as just Finsbury.

2016

Rudd became a governor of Millfield schools in 2016 and was appointed chairman of the governors.

He is a visiting fellow at Oxford University's Centre for Corporate Reputation, part of the Saïd Business School.

2019

He subsequently damaged his relationship with many figures in the Labour Party and elsewhere in politics due to his controversial role in the demise of the People's Vote campaign in 2019.

Rudd is a trustee of the Royal Opera House, the Speakers for Schools programme, and the Tate.

He was also a trustee of the Garden Bridge Trust.

He is a non-executive director of the Army Board, patron of the NSPCC, and was a governor of Wellington College.

On 27 October 2019, Rudd used his role as the chair of Open Britain—just one of five organisations under the People's Vote umbrella—to announce he wanted to sack James McGrory and Tom Baldwin, as the campaign's director and director of communications.

More than 40 staff members walked out in protest at this decision and Rudd's effort to impose Patrick Heneghan as the campaign's interim chief executive.

At a subsequent staff meeting Rudd was criticised as a city PR man who had rarely been seen in the offices and a motion of no confidence in his role was passed by 40 votes to 3.