UK billionaire Chris Rokos donates record £190m to Cambridge University

Single biggest donation to a UK university in modern times will establish a new school of government bearing his name The British billionaire hedge fund manager Chris Rokos has donated a record £190m to the University of Cambridge to establish a new school of government, which will bear his name. It is believed to be the single biggest donation to any UK university in modern times and is intended to support Cambridge to become a leading training ground for future world leaders. Rokos, 55, one of the UK’s richest individuals, is giving an initial £130m, plus further funds of up to £60m that will be matched by the university. Discussions have been under way for some time, but the Rokos school of government will open its doors in temporary accommodation this autumn, offering PhD and master’s degrees. It will ultimately move into a new building in the Cambridge West Innovation District and aims to rival the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik school of government, which opened in 2010 with a £75m donation from the Soviet-born businessman Leonard Blavatnik. Rokos, who went to a state primary school before being offered a scholarship to Eton college and studying maths at Oxford, s

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