Philip May

Sir Philip John May (born 1957) is an English investment manager. He is married to Theresa May, who was prime minister of the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2019. Early life May was born in Norwich in 1957. His father was a sales representative for a shoe wholesaler, while his mother taught French. He grew up on the Wirral, attending school in Heswall and then Calday Grange Grammar School in West Kirby. May studied history at Lincoln College, Oxford, and was elected President of the Oxford Union in 1979. He succeeded future Conservative MP Sir Alan Duncan in the role before handing over the baton to journalist Michael Crick. Financial career May has worked in finance since graduating from Oxford University. In 2005, he joined the financial group Capital Group as a relationship manager; he had previously been a fund manager for de Zoete & Bevan, Prudential Portfolio Managers and Deutsche Asset Management. His former LinkedIn profile listed his focuses in work as pension fund and insurance relationship management. In regards to his persona, one of his colleagues told The Guardian that "around the office, he is a fairly head-down type of guy. There is a stereotypical investment manager with a big ego – he's not like that at all."