Look Sharp

The Telegraph seems to have become official headhunters for the next BBC chairman. Today, they're suggesting it'll be Richard Sharp, former lead Goldman Sachs banker in the UK, Tory donor, advisor to Boris Johnson as London Mayor, now working with his former GS employee Rishi Sunak. 

Mr Sharp is the son of Eric Sharp, the former civil servant who went on to run Monsanto and Cable & Wireless, who was ennobled as Baron Sharp of Grimsdyke. He has a degree in PPE from Oxford University, and started in banking with JP Morgan. 

He married another Goldman Sachs banker Victoria Hull (from Greenwich, Connecticut) in 1987; they have three children. With Richard, she started London Music Masters, now Music Masters, a musical education charity. Victoria is now married to another investment banker, Sir Simon Robey. 

Since leaving Goldman Sachs in 2007, Mr Sharp has held a range of interesting roles. He is a director of the Centre for Policy Studies, chairman of investment vehicle Roundshield, and External Member of the Financial Policy Committee, Bank of England.  It's not clear what happened to Cemetery Equity Investments, of which he was a director from 2013 to 2016.