Peter Hall

He became a Member of the Order of Australia for his philanthropic endeavours in 2010.

He is a donor to the Conservative Party, having donated in excess of £100,000 from 2010 to 2015, and £500,000 prior to the 2010 election. In April 2015, he criticised Prime Minister David Cameron's leadership and called for Boris Johnson to become the next leader of the party, if David Cameron lost the election. However, shortly after making the comments, Hall apologised.

In 2008, with fellow financier George Robinson, he acquired 26% of Prospect, a British magazine of political affairs, from Derek Coombs. As a result, both Hall and Robinson had a controlling stake in the magazine. Moreover, Hall was a founding shareholder of Monocle, a global affairs and lifestyle magazine, but has since sold his stake.

In 2005 Hall, along with James Gurnsey and Cameron McClure, founded Flat White café in Berwick Street, Soho, which was the first of the third wave independent cafes to introduce Antipodean-style coffee, and especially the eponymous Flat White, to London and Europe. He also owns Milk Bar in Bateman Street, Soho.

In 1993, he founded Hunter Hall Investment Management, an investment firm which focuses on "ethical investing", with just AUS$1 million. It now has from AUS$1.1 billion, and employs 30 people. Hall previously served as its Executive chairman and Chief Investment Officer, and owns 47% of the firm. In December 2016, Hall abruptly resigned his role as CIO (no mention was made of his role as CEO or COO).

Peter Hall was born in 1960 in Bangkok, Thailand. His father was a journalist and diplomat from New Zealand. As a result, he lived in Pakistan with his family when he was five years old. He also lived in Canada, France and England. His uncle Edwin Arnold Earnshaw worked for News Corporation from 1964.