Gadhia was a pupil at Gayton High Comprehensive School (now
Harrow High School) from 1982 to 1986, before going on to study economics at
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and the
London Business School, where he was a
Sloan Fellow. Gadhia is a senior managing director at
The Blackstone Group, a US private equity firm. He also sits on the board of
UK Financial Investments. and has written for
The Daily Telegraph. though questions were raised about a potential conflict of interest when the company was late publishing its annual results, amid concerns about its financial resilience and ability to fund clean-up costs. Gadhia resigned as a director in September 2018. == Political support ==