Born Carter William Page on the 3rd June 1971, in Minneapolis, Minnesota USA, he is a businessman, best known to the world for his extensive work in the petroleum industry. He is a founder of Global Energy Capital, an investment fund specialized in the Russian and Central Asian gas and oil industry.
Have you ever wondered how rich Carter Page is, as of early 2018? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Page’s net worth is as high as $610 million, an amount earned through his successful career, active since the late ‘90s.
Carter Page Net Worth $610 Million
Born to Rachel and Robert Page, a businessman, he grew up in Poughkeepsie, New York and went to Our Lady of Lourdes High School, from which he matriculated in 1989. He then enrolled at the United States Naval Academy, earning Distinguished Graduate honors, while also being selected for the Navy’s Trident Scholar program. He was a part of the US Navy for five years, including serving as an intelligence officer for a United Nations peacekeeping mission. He earned a Master of Arts degree in National Security Studies from Georgetown University.
His educational years continued after he left the navy, as he completed a fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations, while in 2001 he obtained a Master of Business Administration degree from New York University. In 2012 he obtained his Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, writing a dissertation on the change from communism to capitalism in Asian countries. Supervised by Shirin Akiner, his work was rejected a couple of times, but ultimately Carter successfully finished his doctorate.
His earliest work was in 1998 when he became a part of the Eurasia Group, however, dissatisfied with his position, Carter left the consulting firm to then joined Merrill Lynch’s London office as an investment banker; Page was slowly building his career and reached the vice-president’s position in the company’s Moscow office, while also worked as COO of the energy and power department in New York. During his time in Moscow, Carter was one of the people responsible for the privatization of RAO UES, an electric power holding company that once controlled 70 percent of Russia’s electricity transmission lines.
However, he left Merill Lynch in 2008 and started the investment fund Global Energy Capital, with the help of James Richard and Sergei Yatsenko. Since starting the company, Carter has been primarily focused on Russian and Central Asian oil and gas business which only increased his net worth, especially as of late 2017, Carter is now the sole owner of the fund.
Aside from his career as a businessman, Carter has also served as foreign policy analyst; he was one of the advisers for (now) President Trump during his 2016 Presidential Campaign, but due to his close connections with Russian businessmen and politicians, he had to step down from his role. Also, he was investigated by US Intelligence officials since his name appeared in the Donald Trump-Russia dossier which contained information about Trump’s collaboration with senior Kremlin authorities.
He has also tried himself as an author in recent years, primarily writing for Global Policy Journal, and has also worked as a professor at New York University, holding a course on energy and politics.
When it comes to his personal life, unfortunately there is no reliable information about Carter’s private affairs, except that he was in a romantic relationship with Lady Evelyn Herbert. However, according to sources, Page is currently single.
