Andrew Law (financier)

Andrew Eric Law was born in June 1966,[1] and raised in Cheadle Hulme near Stockport, England.[2][3] His father was a mechanical engineer and his mother was a nurse.[2] He was educated at Cheadle Hulme High School.[2] He graduated from the University of Sheffield in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, with a First Class honours degree in Economics in 1987.[4][5][6]

He started his career in finance at County NatWest, now known as NatWest.[2][4] He then worked as a trader at the Chemical Bank.[2][4][6] In 1996, he joined Goldman Sachs, later becoming a managing director, where he oversaw FICC.[4][6]

Between May 2010 and January 2015, he donated £947,911 to the Conservative Party, making him its 11th biggest donor in this period.[9] In May 2017, he gave £250,000 to the Conservative Party.[10]

During the 2019 United Kingdom general election campaign Law donated £413,750 to the Conservative Party.[11]

He co-chairs the Law Family Charitable Foundation with his wife.[4] They support many non-profit organisations, including the Policy Exchange, a think tank based in Westminster.[4] In 2014, they donated £1 million to The Lowry in Salford, where the spaces inside the Main Gallery were renamed The Andrew and Zoë Law Galleries.[12][13] In 2022, the Foundation provided the £8.1 million funding for the Lowry to purchase L.S.Lowry's Going to the Match, the 1953 painting of people on their way to watch a Bolton Wanderers match at the former Burnden Park stadium.[14]

In 2021 the Law Family Charitable Foundation donated £5.85m to the University of Sheffield to launch a new student support programme and search for new therapies for a range of incurable and debilitating diseases.[15]

In 2022, the Foundation donated £3million to the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester to fund the future of its Power Hall gallery, which will reopen in 2024.[16] In the same year, the Foundation donated £2.9million to Factory International, a destination for arts, music and culture, commissioning and present a year-round programme of interdisciplinary work by leading artists, due to open in 2023.[17]

Law is the chairman of the board of trustees of Speakers for Schools, which invites public speakers to state schools in the UK.[4] He spoke at the Trinity C.E. High School in Manchester.[2] He is on the board of trustees of Social Finance.[4] Additionally, he is a patron of the Hotcourses Foundation, which helps vulnerable schoolchildren in Kenya.[18]

In an op-ed published in The Huffington Post in 2014, he called for hedge fund managers to be more philanthropic.[19]

He is married to Zoë Law (née Purvis),[20][4] a former make-up artist whose clients included Sienna Miller, and Emilia Fox and Tamara Mellon. [20] They have a house in west London.[21]

She is now a photographer whose portfolio includes the exhibition LIFE,[22] with portraits of 21 people who have cancer. The exhibition, which was displayed at The Lowry in Salford Quays in 2019,[23] was set up to raise awareness of the cancer support provided by the Maggie's Centres.

According to The Sunday Times Rich List in 2022, Law is worth £750 million.[24]

He is a supporter of the football team, Manchester City F.C.[2] He owns "Manchester City vs Sheffield United", a 1938 painting by L. S. Lowry.[2]