Michael Levy, Baron Levy

Michael Levy, Baron Levy

Michael Abraham Levy, Baron Levy (* 11 July 1944 in London ) is a British manager , entrepreneur , official Jewish organizations and politicians of the Labor Party , which since 1997 Peer Life Member of the House of Lords is.

Life

Manager, entrepreneur and functionary of a Jewish organization

After attending school and studying, Levy, who became a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales in 1966, was a sworn accountant from 1966 to 1973 and then founded the record and music company Magnet Records, which he owned until it was sold to Warner Bros. 1988 stayed. Artists such as Alvin Stardust , Chris Rea and the Bad Manners group appeared at this music label .

During this time he was Vice Chairman of the music licensing company Phonographic Performance Limited from 1979 to 1984 and then until 1987 Vice Chairman of the British Phonographic Industry Ltd.

In addition, Levy, who comes from a Jewish family, was active as chairman of the national campaign of the Joint Israel Appeal from 1982 to 1985. In addition, he served as the British representative on the board of directors of the Jewish Agency from 1990 to 1995 and from 1991 to 1995 as a member of the board of directors of the Keren Hajessod Palestine Relief Fund . Between 1990 and 1995 he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Jewish Free Schools. At the same time he served as chairman of the Aliyah Youth Committee on the Board of Directors of the Jewish Agency from 1991 to 1995 and chairman of the award committee for the Award for Excellence of the Great Rabbi of London between 1992 and 2007 . Since 1995 he has also been a member of the World Commission on Relations between Israel and the Diaspora .

He continued to work in the music and entertainment industry in the 1990s and has been a consultant for numerous international companies since 1998. He has also been chairman of the Foundation for Education since 1993 and chairman of the Jewish Care Community Foundation since 1995. He was also Honorary Vice President of the United Jt Israel Appeal (UJIA) from 1994 to 2000 and has been patron of the British Music Industry Trust since 1995 . Levy was also vice-chairman of the Central Council for Jewish Social Services between 1994 and 2006.

Member of the House of Lords and other honorary positions

By a letters patent dated September 23, 1997, Levy was raised to the nobility as a life peer with the title Baron Levy , of Mill Hill in the London Borough of Barnet . Shortly after its introduction was carried out ( Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords . In the House of Lords he belongs to the Labor Party faction . Subsequently, between 1998 and 2007, he was Prime Minister Tony Blair's personal negotiator and his advisor on questions of Middle East policy.

After serving as Chairman from 1992 to 1997, he has served as President of the Jewish welfare organization Jewish Care since 1998 and has since also been President of Community Service Volunteers (CSV), the UK's largest voluntary welfare organization. Between 1997 and 2006 he was a member of the Advisory Board of the Foreign Policy Center and from 1997 to 2009 he was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Shimon Peres Peace Center in Tel Aviv-Jaffa . He has also been the patron of the Prostate Cancer Charity Foundation since 1997 and of the Education Foundation of the Labor parliamentary group Friends of Israel since 1998 and was also a trustee of the Holocaust Educational Trust between 1998 and 2007 . In addition, he has served as a member of the Advisory Council of the National Council for Voluntary Organizations since 1998 and as a member of the Honorary Council of the Association of Israel, Great Britain and the Commonwealth of Nations since 2000 .

Furthermore, Lord Levy has been Honorary President of UJIA since 2000 and President of the Jewish Free Schools since 2001. Between 2000 and 2007 he was also chairman of the trustee board of the New Politics Network think tank and from 2001 to 2002 a member of the executive committee of the non-profit organization Chai Lifeline. He was also a member of the Labor Party's fundraising committee from 2002 to 2007.

In addition, he acted as Chairman of the Academies Sponsors Trust from 2004 to 2005 and as President of the Foundation for Special Schools and Academies between 2005 and 2008 and has been President of the Jewish Boys and Girls Brigade since 2006. Between 2008 and 2011 he was Chairman of the International Standard Asset Management (ISAM) and from 2010 to 2011 Vice-President of the Jewish Management Council.

He has also acted as patron of the Save a Child's Heart Foundation since 2000 and as patron of the Simon Marks Foundation for Jewish Primary Schools since 2002 and as honorary patron of the Jewish Society of the University of Cambridge .

honors and awards

Levy, who received the B'nai B'rith Prize in 1994 , was honored with the Scopus Prize of the Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1998 and received an honorary doctorate from Middlesex University in 1999 . In 2003 he was finally awarded the Special Prize of the Israel Policy Forum in New York City .

Publications

• A Question of Honor (2008)

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on November 18, 2012)
• Michael Levy at Hansard (English)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed on November 18, 2012)
• Biography in Debrett's (accessed on November 18, 2012)