Christopher Harborne

Christopher Harbourne

Credenciales

MEng Engineering, Cambridge University, 1981-85.¹
MBA, Institut Européen d’Administration des Affaires, 1988.²

Fondo

Christopher Harborne is a British Thailand-based businessman and a major donor to Nigel Farage’s party, Reforma del Reino Unido.³

In 2025, Harborne gave £12 million to Reform, including the largest single donation of any living person in British political history.⁴ Since 2019, he has donated more than £22 million to the party.⁵

Harborne was previously a Conservative Party donor, and gave £1.8 million to the party between 2001 and 2022.⁶ He also gave £1 million to former Conservative leader Boris Johnson’s private office in November 2022, while Johnson was serving as prime minister.⁷

While he has claimed to believe in climate change, Harborne has been a major donor to parties that have pushed an anti-climate agenda.

En 2024, el publicado a statement stating that he believes climate change presents “a serious threat to the survival of a significant percentage of the human population.”⁸

Yet, Reform’s manifesto for the 2024 general election suggested that climate change was not primarily caused by human activity, stating that it “has happened for millions of years based on multiple factors completely outside human control or influence.”⁹

Harborne was an early investor in bitcoin and Ethereum, the two biggest cryptocurrencies. The latter “now accounts for a major portion of his net worth”, según los estándares documents seen by The Guardian.¹⁰

Harborne also según se informa holds a 12 percent share in the cryptocurrency Tether, which is based in El Salvador.¹¹ Tether is one of the world’s most popular “stablecoins” – a type of digital asset pegged to the U.S. dollar.¹²

Tether says it made beneficios. of $13 billion (£10.2 billion) in 2024.¹³ With only 150 staff, it has been , que son the most profitable company per employee ever.¹⁴

Despite Farage’s vocal support for cryptocurrencies – including Tether – the Reform leader claims that Harborne wants “absolutely nothing in return at all” for his donations to the party. However, at a press conference on 4 December 2025, the Reform leaderadicional that the pair speak “maybe once a month, maybe once every six weeks”.¹⁵

Harborne fundado AML Global, an aviation fuel company,¹⁶ was made the chair of private jet company Sheriff Global in July 2025 having founded the company in 2000,¹⁷ and is a major shareholder in QinetiQ, a British defence company.¹⁸

In September 2023, Boris Johnson was acompañado by Harborne on a two-day visit to Ukraine that included meetings with top officials.¹⁹

Born in the UK, he is also known by the Thai name Chakrit Sakunkrit and has taken citizenship in the country, having lived there for more than 20 years.²⁰

Después de estudiar at the University of Cambridge and the leading French business school Institut Européen D’Administration des Affaires, he joined McKinsey,²¹ a multinational management consultancy.

In a 2024 defamation claim over a Wall Street Journal story about his involvement with Tether, Harborne’s legal documents said: “He does not proselytise his views, he does not give speeches or media interviews, and he does not maintain active social media accounts.”²²

Postura sobre el cambio climático

17 de Mayo de 2024

In response to a DeSmog historia in June 2024 about his donations to Reform, Harborne posted a lengthy ambiental to the AML Global website explaining his views towards climate science.²³

Él dijo:

“I am not a climate science denier and… I do not seek to influence any government through donations or lobbying regarding their policies on climate change or in favour of corporate interests.”

He added: “there is overwhelming scientific evidence that human activity and in particular the use of hydrocarbons as an energy source is accelerating climate warming due to the greenhouse effect.”

“The impact of this will drive accelerated migration of many flora and fauna species in search of new places to live and the extinction of many species which fail to migrate or adapt. Humans will not be exempt from this. Although we do have extraordinary capabilities and resources to counter it or adapt if we choose to use them.”

“Catastrophic climate change impact represents a serious threat to the survival of a significant percentage of the human population.”

Acciones Clave

2025

Harborne donated £12 million to Reform UK over the course of 2025.

In the last quarter of 2025, he donated £3 million to the party.²⁴ This followed a donation of £9 million to Reform UK in August, the largest single donation from a living person in British political history.²⁵

2022

Harborne donated £1,515,000 to the Conservative Party throughout the year, £1,015,000 of which was given during Boris Johnson’s tenure as leader and prime minister.²⁶

In November 2022, Harborne donated £1 million to The Office of Boris Johnson Ltd, one of the biggest donations ever made to an individual British politician.²⁷

He also donated £465,000 to the Brexit Party – Nigel Farage’s political party which was renamed Reform UK in 2021 – over six donations.²⁸

2018-2020

Harborne donated £10.2 million to the Brexit Party over 18 separate donations,²⁹ and £112,500 to the Conservative Party.³⁰

2006

Harborne founded aviation fuel company AML Global.³¹