He speaks Chinese and is learning Bangla

Percy recently tied the knot with Tulip Siddiq, the niece of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and daughter of Sheikh Rehana, and appeared in traditional Bengali wedding attire at a get-together in London on Sunday evening.

The Caucasian Briton studied Economics at Birkbeck College, University of London, and then worked for the UK government’s Education and Employers Taskforce, Department for Education, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Now with Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, the grandson-in-law of Bangladesh’s founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman does management consulting.

Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, founded in 1967, is a global firm, headquartered in Munich, Germany, and has 51 offices in 36 countries.

Percy read Chinese at Cambridge University and speaks Mandarin.

Since 2011, according to his firm Roland Berger, Tulip’s husband has been a strategy consultant based in London, “with a focus on telecoms, manufacturing and new market entry”.

His official profile says “he creates financial models for his clients, providing them with an exceptional point of view”.

Tulip just gave one name – Chris – for her husband when she broke the news last month to bdnews24.com of her marriage with him months earlier.

His full name – Christian St John (pronounced Sin Jun) Percy – was known only on the day the couple appeared in a ceremony in East London attended by Hasina, Rehana, their children, friends and a number of senior British politicians.

Percy’s professional CV boasts “professional experience in research, buy-side equities analysis and in public institutions”.

 

His Bengali wife Tulip, who describes herself as “small and fiery”, pursues a career in British politics and was elected in 2010 a councillor for central London borough of Camden.She studied English Literature for her Bachelor’s and Master’s at University College of London and politics and policy for a second Master’s at King’s College.

Born in 1982, Tulip turns 31 this September, and hopes to get Labour nomination for a crucial London constituency, Hamstead and Kilburn, now held by celebrated actress Glenda Jackson, who is retiring.

It’s not yet known how the two met or when. Percy is said to be learning Bangla and spoke a few words while greeting guests at the West Ham event marking their wedding.

Source: Bd news24