Education and Early Life
Born in South Africa, Strauss moved to England at the age of six. First playing cricket in Australia for Caulfield Grammar School, an independent school in the South East coastal city of Melbourne, Strauss came back to England and was educated at two independent schools in Southern England: first at Caldicott School, a boys' prep school near the village of Farnham Royal in Buckinghamshire, followed by Radley College, a boys' senior school near the village of Radley in Oxfordshire and, between 1995 and 1998, at Hatfield College at the University of Durham in the City of Durham in North East England, where he read Economics, writing a dissertation on supermodular games and receiving a 2:1 degree.
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