Jonathan Kestenbaum, Baron Kestenbaum

The Lord Kestenbaum
Born
Jonathan Andrew Kestenbaum

(1959-08-05) 5 August 1959
Tokyo, Japan
CitizenshipBritish
Alma mater
Occupation(s)Chief operating officer of RIT Capital Partners plc, and a Labour member of the House of Lords
Political partyLabour Party
Relativesgreat-grandson of Joseph Breuer, and great-great-great-grandson of Samson Raphael Hirsch and of Eliezer Liepman Philip Prins.
Awards

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 House of Lords.

Kestenbaum 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 National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA). He was created a life peer in 2011 as Baron Kestenbaum of Foxcote in the County of Somerset, and sits on the Labour benches.