History
Moynihan was then awarded an Open Scholarship in Mathematics at Balliol College Oxford (BA and MA in Psychology and Philosophy - PPP), with further education at North London Polytechnic - now part of the London Metropolitan University (MSc in Applied Statistics), and the MIT Sloan School of Management (MS in Business and Finance).
After leaving Oxford University, Moynihan worked at Track Records, the management company for The Who and other rock bands. He then worked in India and Bangladesh, for War on Want and Save the Children. On his return to the UK, he worked at Roche Products Ltd, the UK arm of Hoffman-La Roche, as product manager for various anti-cancer, anti-epileptic, and anti-anxiety and insomnia drugs, including Valium and Mogadon.
After taking his degree at MIT, Moynihan worked first at McKinsey & Company in Amsterdam (1977–79), then at Strategic Planning Associates (which became Mercer Management Consulting, and latterly Oliver Wyman) in Washington DC (1979–81), and then as a partner at First Manhattan Consulting Group in New York, from 1981 to 1992.
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