Jonathan Paine

Dr. Jonathan Paine is a career investment banker and specialist in the telecommunications, media and technology (TMT) sectors. He has recently retired from Rothschild & Co. where he led the media team for over 25 years as managing director, then senior adviser and chair of the global TMT team. He is an expert in mergers and acquisitions and corporate strategy. In his early career he also worked at Schroders, Swiss Bank Corporation and S.G. Warburg.

He joined Wolfson College in 2010 as a mature student and completed his doctorate in 2017. He writes on literature and economics and his monograph, Selling the Story, was published by Harvard University Press in 2019. He is a Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College and has served on the college’s Investment Committee since 2010.

He has held non-executive board positions in the health, housing and charity sectors and is currently a non-executive director of the University of East Anglia. He is also the Treasurer of the International Dostoevsky Society.