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, occupation = Chief operating officer of RIT Capital Partners plc, and a Labour member of the

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and of Eliezer Liepman Philip Prins. , family = , callsign = , awards = * Honorary Doctorate in Technology from the

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* Honorary Fellow of the

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, Baron Kestenbaum of Foxcote in the County of Somerset , website = , module = , module2 = , module3 = , module4 = , module5 = , module6 = , signature = , signature_size = , signature_alt = , footnotes = Jonathan Andrew Kestenbaum, Baron Kestenbaum (born 5 August 1959) is the Chief Operating Officer of the listed Investment Company RIT Capital Partners plc. He is also the Chancellor of The University of Plymouth, a Director of JPMorgan Japanese Investment Trust plc and a member of the

. Kestenbaum is a great-grandson of Joseph Breuer, and a great-great-great-grandson of

and of Eliezer Liepman Philip Prins. He is a former Chief Executive of The

National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts Nesta (formerly NESTA, National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) is a British foundation, registered as a charity, which supports innovation. Nesta was originally funded by a £250 million endowment from the UK National Lotter ...

(NESTA). He was created a

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in 2011 as Baron Kestenbaum of Foxcote in the County of Somerset, and sits on the Labour benches.

Early life and education

Kestenbaum was born in Tokyo, Japan, and is British. Both his parents' families fled

Nazi Germany Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German Reich, German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a Totalit ...

– first to the United States, then Japan. The family moved to the UK in 1964 when he was five years old. Kestenbaum graduated from the

where he read Economics and Anthropology, and then pursued postgraduate study at

in the Department of Anthropology.Lord Kestenbaum, Plymouth University's First Chancellor
Connect, Winter 2013 He completed an MA in Education at

, 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

. He is a graduate of the

Cabinet Office The Cabinet Office is a Departments of the Government of the United Kingdom, ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom. It is responsible for supporting the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, prime minister and Cabinet ...

Top Management Programme and a graduate of the Strategic Agility Programme at

. He has an Honorary Doctorate in Technology from the

, and is an Honorary Fellow of the

Career

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 Chief Rabbi () is a title given in several countries to the recognized religious leader of that country's Jewish community, or to a rabbinic leader appointed by the local secular authorities. Since 1911, through a capitulation by Ben-Zion Meir ...

, Lord Sacks, and then Chief Executive of the charity the United Jewish Israel Appeal (UJIA).The Kestenbaum phenomenon
The Jewish Chronicle, 21 November 2010 Following a restructure which involved a merger with another UK charity, the UJIA won the National Charity Award. He has also worked as Chief of Staff to Sir Ronald Cohen, the Chairman of private equity firm

Apax Partners Apax Partners LLP is a British private equity firm, headquartered in London, England. The company also operates out of six other offices in New York, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Tel Aviv, Munich and Shanghai. As of March 2024, the firm had raised and adv ...

, and was founding Chief Executive of non-profit "action tank" The Portland Trust. In 2005 he became Chief Executive of The

(NESTA). Whilst at NESTA he highlighted the importance of innovation to economic growth and was a prominent advocate for UK technology start-ups. 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. Kestenbaum has served in a number of non-executive roles. He was on the Board of the

Design Council The Design Council, formerly the Council of Industrial Design, is a United Kingdom Charitable trust, charity incorporated by royal charter. Its stated mission is "to champion great design that improves lives and makes things better". It was instr ...

and Enterprise Insight, and was Non-Executive Chairman of Quest, a large accounting business. He served on the Governing Body of the innovation agency the

Technology Strategy Board Innovate UK is the United Kingdom's innovation agency, which provides money and support to organisations to make new products and services. It is a non-departmental public body operating at arm's length from the Government as part of the UK Re ...

, acted as a Commissioner of the Manchester Independent Economic Review and Chairman of the

City of Manchester Manchester () is a city and the metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It had an estimated population of in . Greater Manchester is the third-most populous metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, with a population of 2.92&nbs ...

Science Review. He chaired the Board of Directors of The Capital Holdings Funds (EDR Group), and was a member of the Board of Profero, a leading

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company. In January 2014 Profero was sold to Lowe, a subsidiary of

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(IPG). In 2015 he was appointed to the Board of Directors of Pershing Square Holdings plc. He has completed his term of office on the Innovation Advisory Group at

Imperial College Imperial College London, also known as Imperial, is a public research university in London, England. Its history began with Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, who envisioned a cultural district in South Kensington that included museums ...

and is now adjunct Professor at the

Imperial College Business School Imperial Business School is the business school of Imperial College London, based in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, United Kingdom. Established in 2003, the business school was opened by Elizabeth II, Queen Elizabeth II. ...

. He also served on the Board of the

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, and was involved in developing the new

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Stratford-Upon-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon ( ), commonly known as Stratford, is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon (district), Stratford-on-Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands region of Engl ...

. In 2023 he was appointed as a Director of JPMorgan Japanese Investment Trust plc. In the same year he became a Trustee of Teach First and also serves as the Vice Chairman of Labour Together as well as on the Board of Windmill Hill Asset Management. Kestenbaum twice represented Great Britain at football in the

Maccabiah Games The Maccabiah Games (, or משחקי המכביה העולמית; sometimes referred to as the "Jewish Olympics") is an international multi-sport event with summer and winter sports competitions featuring Jews and Israelis regardless of religion ...

- in 2001 as a player and in 2009 as Manager.Lord Kestenbaum named as GB president for EMG
The Jewish Chronicle, 25 March 2011Kestenbaum: 'It's time to take a break'
The Jewish Chronicle, 2 September 2009 He is an Honorary Life President of Maccabi GB.Lord Kestenbaum
Members' Interests, UK Parliament In December 2013, Kestenbaum was installed as Chancellor of Plymouth University.

House of Lords

Kestenbaum was created a

on 24 January 2011 as Baron Kestenbaum of Foxcote in the County of Somerset. He was introduced in the House of Lords on 26 January 2011, and sits on the Labour benches.https://members.parliament.uk/member/4225/career Lord Kestenbaum serves as a member of the Select Committee on Financial Services Regulation.

Arms

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Early life and education

Career

House of Lords

Arms

See also

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