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Born | Jonathan Andrew Kestenbaum August 5, 1959 Tokyo, Japan |
Citizenship | British [1] |
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Occupation(s) | Chief operating officer of RIT Capital Partners plc, and a Labour member of the House of Lords |
Political party | Labour Party |
Relatives | great-grandson of Joseph Breuer, and great-great-great-grandson of Samson Raphael Hirsch and of Eliezer Liepman Philip Prins. |
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Jonathan Andrew Kestenbaum, Baron Kestenbaum (born 5 August 1959) is the chief operating officer of investment trust RIT Capital Partners plc, and a Labour member of the House of Lords. He is a great-grandson of Joseph Breuer, and a great-great-great-grandson of Samson Raphael Hirsch and of Eliezer Liepman Philip Prins. He is a former Chief Executive of the innovation foundation the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA). He was founding Chief Executive of the non-profit "action tank" The Portland Trust. Kestenbaum was created a life peer in 2011 as Baron Kestenbaum of Foxcote in the County of Somerset, and sits on the Labour benches. In 2013, Kestenbaum was installed as Chancellor of Plymouth University.
Kestenbaum was born in Tokyo, Japan, and is British. [1] Both his parents' families fled Nazi Germany – first to the United States, then Japan. The family moved to the UK in 1964 when he was five years old.
Kestenbaum is a great-grandson of Joseph Breuer, and a great-great-great-grandson of Samson Raphael Hirsch and of Eliezer Liepman Philip Prins. [2] [3]
Kestenbaum graduated from the London School of Economics where he read Economics and Anthropology, and then pursued postgraduate study at Cambridge University in the Department of Anthropology. [4] He completed an MA in Education at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and was subsequently awarded a research scholarship in Education at the Hebrew University. On his return to the UK, Kestenbaum earned an MBA with distinction from the Cass Business School. [4] He is a graduate of the Cabinet Office Top Management Programme and a graduate of the Strategic Agility Programme at Harvard Business School. [4] He has an Honorary Doctorate in Technology from the University of Plymouth, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art. [5]
Before becoming active in business, he started his career in education, building an international training programme for young educators.
Subsequently, Kestenbaum was Chief Executive of the Office of the Chief Rabbi, Lord Sacks, and then Chief Executive of the charity the United Jewish Israel Appeal (UJIA). [4] [6] Following a restructure which involved a merger with another UK charity, the UJIA won the National Charity Award. [4] [7] He has also worked as Chief of Staff to Sir Ronald Cohen, the Chairman of private equity firm Apax Partners, and was founding Chief Executive of non-profit "action tank" The Portland Trust. [4]
In 2005 he became Chief Executive of the innovation foundation National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA). [6] [4] Whilst at NESTA he highlighted the importance of innovation to economic growth [8] [9] and was an advocate for UK technology start-ups. [10] [11]
In 2010 he was appointed Chairman of Five Arrows Ltd, and subsequently became chief operating officer of the listed investment trust RIT Capital Partners plc. [4] [6] [12] [13]
Kestenbaum has served in a number of non-executive roles. He was on the Board of the Design Council and Enterprise Insight, and was Non-Executive Chairman of Quest, a large accounting business. [4] He served on the Governing Body of the innovation agency the Technology Strategy Board, acted as a Commissioner of the Manchester Independent Economic Review [14] and he was Chairman of the City of Manchester Science Review. [4] He chaired the board of directors of The Capital Holdings Funds (EDR Group), and was a member of the Board of Profero, a digital marketing company. [15] In January 2014 Profero was sold to Lowe, a subsidiary of Interpublic Group (IPG). [16] He has completed his term of office on the Innovation Advisory Group at Imperial College and is now Adjunct Professor at the Imperial College Business School. He also served on the Board of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and was involved in developing the new Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon. [17]
Kestenbaum twice represented Great Britain at football in the Maccabiah Games - in 2001 as a player and in 2009 as Manager. [18] [19] [20] He is an Honorary Life President of Maccabi GB. [21]
He serves on the Board of Windmill Hill Asset Management. [21] In 2023 he was appointed as a Director of JPMorgan Japanese Investment Trust plc. In the same year he was appointed as a Trustee of Teach First and serves as the Vice Chairman of Labour Together.
In December 2013, Kestenbaum was installed as Chancellor of Plymouth University. [22] [21]
Kestenbaum was created a life peer on 24 January 2011 as Baron Kestenbaum of Foxcote in the County of Somerset. [23] He was introduced in the House of Lords on 26 January 2011, [24] and sits on the Labour benches. [4] [25]
Lord Kestenbaum serves as a member of the Select Committee on Financial Services Regulation.
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