Paul Roderick Clucas Marshall (born 2 August 1959) is a British investor and philanthropist.
He was educated at St John's College, Oxford, and holds an MBA from INSEAD Business School.[1]
He is co-founder and Chairman of Marshall Wace LLP, one of Europe's largest hedge fund groups. Marshall Wace was founded in 1997 by Paul Marshall and Ian Wace.[2] Funds managed by Marshall Wace have won multiple investment awards[3] and the company has become one of the world's leading managers of equity long/short strategies. He is a member of the Hedge Fund Standards Board.
Marshall is also a co-founder and trustee of ARK – Absolute Return for Kids, one of Britain's fastest growing children's charities.[4] He is chairman of ARK Schools, which is one of Britain’s leading providers of academies and has also played a pioneering role in developing new programmes for inner city education. He is also a founding trustee of the charity Every Child a Chance.[5]
Marshall chairs the Management Committee of liberal think tank, CentreForum. CentreForum was relaunched under Marshall's Chairmanship in 2005.[6]
Paul Marshall has a longstanding involvement with Britain's Liberal Democrats Party.[7] He was research assistant to Charles Kennedy, MP, former leader of the Liberal Democrats in 1985 and stood for Parliament for the SDP/Liberal Alliance in Fulham in 1987.
He was founder Chairman of the City Liberal Democrats, and more recently Chairman of the Liberal Democrat Business Forum. He is an Adviser to Nick Clegg MP, the current leader of the Liberal Democrats. He has made numerous appearances on current affairs programmes such as BBC Radio 4's Any Questions.[8]
Publications include: The Market Failures Review (Editor - 1999), Orange Book (co-editor with David Laws, MP - 2005), Britain After Blair (co-editor with Julian Astle, David Laws, MP, Alasdair Murray), Aiming Higher: a better future for England's schools (co-author with Jennifer Moses, 2006)Tackling educational inequality ( with Sumi Rabindrakumar and Lucy Wilkins, 2007)[9] and 'Football and the Big Society' (with Sam Tomlin, 2011).[10]
Marshall is father of Winston "Country" Marshall of the band Mumford & Sons.