1. Robert Skidelsky, which leased the Mulin coalmine, the largest private coalmine in Manchuria, from the Chinese government in 1920.
17 Facts About Robert Skidelsky
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Robert Skidelsky went back to China with his parents in 1947, living for a little over a year in Tientsin.
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From 1953 to 1958, Robert Skidelsky was a boarder at Brighton College.
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Robert Skidelsky went on to read history at Jesus College, Oxford.
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From 1976 to 1978, Robert Skidelsky was Professor of History, Philosophy and European Studies at the Polytechnic of North London.
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Robert Skidelsky has been a professorial fellow at the Global Policy Institute at London Metropolitan University, and a Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford.
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Robert Skidelsky was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1994.
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Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick.
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Robert Skidelsky currently writes a column on economic history for Project Syndicate, an international media organization.
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Robert Skidelsky objected to the merger and joined the 'continuing' SDP, staying until its dissolution in 1990.
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Robert Skidelsky was made an opposition spokesman in the Lords, first for Culture, then on the Treasury, but he was removed by William Hague, then party leader, for publicly opposing NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999.
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In 2001 Robert Skidelsky left the Conservative Party for the cross benches.
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Robert Skidelsky was Chairman of the Social Market Foundation between 1991 and 2001.
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In March 2014, it was reported that Robert Skidelsky was a director on the board of the Russian state-owned company Rusnano Capital.
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Between 2016 and 1 January 2022, Robert Skidelsky was a non-executive director on the board of Russian oil company Russneft.
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In June 2023 Robert Skidelsky attended a party held by Russian embassy in London and later explained he wanted to show "respect and affection for the Russian people on their national day, especially in these circumstances".
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On 22 November 2023, following a recommendation put forward two weeks previously, Lord Robert Skidelsky was suspended from the House of Lords for one month after it was found that he had breached the House's Code of Conduct while acting as Chair of the Centre for Global Studies, an economics think tank.