Hugh O'leary

Hugh O'Leary(born 1974) is an English accountant. He is the husband of Liz Truss, who was prime minister of the United Kingdom from September to October 2022.

Career

O'Leary was born in Allerton, Liverpool, and raised in Heswall, in Wirral, as the eldest of three siblings. O'Leary's mother Susan was a nurse, and his father John was a college lecturer who trained as a solicitor and worked for the legal firm of the Liverpool lawyer Rex Makin.

O'Leary attended Birkenhead School, where he studied Mathematics and Further Mathematics at A-level, applying unsuccessfully to the University of Oxford to study Philosophy, politics and economics. He went on to study econometrics and mathematical economics at the London School of Economics before becoming an accountant. Whilst at university, he was acquainted with Thérèse Coffey, who was later Liz Truss' Deputy Prime Minister.