Peter Bennett is the founding benefactor of the Peter Bennett Foundation (2013), and the Bennett Institute for Public Policy (2018). Graduating in 1978, he read Economics at Churchill College.
Following a successful career in banking and hedge fund management, Peter now devotes his time to pursuing philanthropic endeavours to promote equality and reduce poverty through direct donations and institutional support.
The Peter Bennett Foundation also established the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science at the University of Oxford (2021). More recently, the Foundation has supported the new Whittle Laboratory (2022), with the establishment of The Bennett Innovation Laboratory, a radical multidisciplinary innovation centre that brings together world-leading experts to solve complex challenges, the Science Museum (2023) and the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex (2023). The Bennett School of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge will open in Autumn 2025.
