George Osborne takes on a SEVENTH job as he is signed up as a lecturer at top US university Stanford

  • Osborne will be 'distinguished visiting professor' at Stanford's Hoover Institution
  • The job is in addition to his main role as editor of the London Evening Standard 
  • Ex-MP also advises BlackRock and chairs the Northern Powerhouse Partnership

By TIM SCULTHORPE, DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR FOR MAILONLINE

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George Osborne has taken on a seventh job after being invited to join top US university Stanford, it was revealed today. 

The ex-chancellor quit politics in June but the burden of editing the Evening Standard, on top of five other jobs, has not proved too much. 

His new post is as a distinguished visiting fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. 

Mr Osborne is also an adviser to investment management firm BlackRock and chairman of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership.

He is also a fellow at US think tank the McCain Institute, an unpaid honorary professor of economics at the University of Manchester, and makes lucrative after-dinner speeches around the world for the Washington Speakers Bureau.  

George Osborne (file image) has taken on a seventh job after being invited to join top US university Stanford, it was revealed today 

George Osborne (file image) has taken on a seventh job after being invited to join top US university Stanford, it was revealed today 

Stanford University (pictured is its California campus) has not revealed whether the former Tory MP would be paid for his new role 

Stanford University (pictured is its California campus) has not revealed whether the former Tory MP would be paid for his new role 

Stanford University did not specify whether the former Tory MP would be paid for his new role and was unavailable for immediate comment.

But Mr Osborne was paid more than £28,400 for a three-hour speech at the Hoover Institution at the California university in October 2016.

He said: 'Stanford is at the heart of some of most exciting changes in our world.

'I hope I can bring my experience to help students of the Graduate School of Business, and the Hoover Institution navigate these changes.

'This is also a unique opportunity for me to connect to Stanford and the West Coast - because, whatever you've done in your life, you should never stop learning and wanting to understand the future.'

SEVEN JOBS OSBORNE 

  1. Editor, Evening Standard
  2. Adviser, investment management firm BlackRock
  3. Chairman, Northern Powerhouse Partnership 
  4. Fellow, think tank McCain Institute
  5. Honorary economics professor, University of Manchester
  6. After dinner speaker, Washington Speakers Bureau  
  7. Distinguished visiting fellow, Stanford University's Hoover Institution
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Mr Osborne has controversially used his new-found power as a newspaper editor to launch a series of attacks on the Prime Minister, describing her as a 'dead woman walking'.

But writing in yesterday's Evening Standard, Mr Osborne called a truce with his former Cabinet colleague.

He admitted 'harsh words' have been swapped over Brexit but said that differences of opinion are no reason for 'intemperate language'.

He blamed much of the animosity on the PM's former top aides Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, who quit in the aftermath of the disastrous Tory election amid anger at the 'toxic' atmosphere they created in No10.

And Mr Osborne heaped praise on the Prime Minister for leading the fight against modern slavery.  

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