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Do you know who is the world’s highest paid public speaker? The answer to this question is Tony Blair. Only a year after leaving the chair of prime minister of England, he has become the world’s highest paid public speaker. He has amassed a wealth of 12 million pounds over the past one year. This wealth is more than six times of the income he earned during his Prime Minister-ship. Moreover, he has a two year of waiting list for bookings. His clients are ready to pay even 250,000 dollars for a typical speech of around 90 minutes.

He loves to speak on finance related topics as he tours mainly include speaking to audiences including investment banks, private equity firms and chambers of commerce. According to the Times, he has earned more money from speeches than Bill Clinton, the former US president, did in his first year after leaving office. As a senior adviser to Wall Street financial bank JP Morgan Chase, he has earned up to £2 million a year, while his salary from Zurich Financial Services to work as an adviser on international politics and climate change is around £500,000.

Let me tell you more about Tony Blair. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007 and the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007. Blair was elected Leader of the Labour Party in July 1994. Under his leadership, Labour party won a landslide victory in the 1997 UK general elections. He was the Labour Party’s longest-serving Prime Minister and the only leader to have taken the party to three consecutive general election victories.

Watch out Tony Blair New World Order speech. “Faith & Globalisation”