The Lord Kestenbaum | |
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| Born | Jonathan Andrew Kestenbaum 5 August 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.