Thomas Whinfield Scholar, known commonly as Tom Scholar, is a British civil servant who is a director of the nationalised bank, Northern Rock and was previously Chief of Staff for Gordon Brown at 10 Downing Street. He is currently the Second Permanent Secretary to the Treasury and heads the department's International and Finance Directorate.
His father, Michael Scholar, is also a Civil Servant, currently employed as the non-executive chairman of the British Government's Statistics Board and President of St John's College, Oxford.
Tom Scholar was previously an Executive Director (ED) at the World Bank.
He was educated at Dulwich College (1979–1986), Trinity Hall, Cambridge and the London School of Economics.
He has two younger brothers, Richard and John
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“The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
How he esteems your merit,
Is such a friend, that one had need
Be very much his friend indeed
To pardon or to bear it.”
—William Cowper (1731–1800)
“When a scholar meets a soldier, he may have reason on his side, but to no avail.”
—Chinese proverb.