Rishi Sunak updates LinkedIn to reflect advisory roles at Microsoft and Anthropic

Rishi Sunak, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, has updated his LinkedIn profile to reflect new part-time senior advisory positions at Microsoft and Anthropic. The roles were first disclosed through the UK’s Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACOBA) back in October 2025, but the casual LinkedIn update gave the career pivot its most public-facing moment yet. The details behind the advisory roles The two positions are structured differently, according to ACOBA’s advice letters. At Microsoft, Sunak is expected to contribute strategic thinking on how technology intersects with macroeconomic and geopolitical trends. He’s also slated to appear as a speaker at the company’s annual summit. His role at Anthropic, the AI safety company backed by Amazon and Google, is more intensive in its framing if not its hours. ACOBA characterized it as something akin to working within an internal think tank, where Sunak can influence the company’s global strategic direction. The estimated time commitment is roughly 70 hours per year, which works out to a little over an hour per week. The compensation for the Anthropic gig alone sits at approximately £373,000 annually, paid in shar...