Jonathan Kestenbaum, Baron Kestenbaum
The Lord Kestenbaum | |
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| Born | Jonathan Andrew Kestenbaum 5 August 1959 Tokyo, Japan |
| Citizenship | British |
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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 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.