Serge Lourie

Alexander Serge Lourie
Born (1946-02-22) 22 February 1946
Nationality British
Spouse(s) Julia

Alexander Serge Lourie (born 22 February 1946)[1] is a former Leader of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames,[2] where he was a local government councillor from 1982 to 2010.[2] He was Chairman of the United Kingdom Housing Trust,[3] Kingston Hospital NHS Trust[4] and Sanctuary Housing Association.[5] He has also been the General Secretary of Help the Aged[6] and a board member of the London Pensions Fund Authority[7][8] and the Notting Hill Housing Trust.

He was educated at St Paul's School, London[9] and Worcester College, Oxford[10] (1965–68), graduating from the University of Oxford with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.[11] He qualified as a chartered accountant with Cooper Brothers in 1971 (now PricewaterhouseCoopers)[12] and was a Labour Party member of Westminster City Council (1971–74)[13] and the Greater London Council (1973–77)[14] where he was chair of scrutiny and vice-chair of finance.

In 1989 he was awarded a fellowship by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. From 1990 and 1994 he chaired the London Boroughs Grants Committee, awarding grants of around £29m to the voluntary sector in London.[15] He was a board member of the London Tourist Board where he deputised for the Chairman, Sir John Egan. He chaired the Independent Panel on members' remuneration for the Association of Police Authorities[16] and was a member of the Metropolitan Police Committee.[17]

He is a board member of Richmond Charities[18] and of Kew Community Trust[19] as well as chairing Poems in the Waiting Room,[20] a British charity providing poetry cards to doctors' waiting rooms in England and Wales. He is a patron of Cultural Co-operation, a charity that runs world music festivals.[21]

In 2015, he was appointed Chairman of the Charity Appeal Committee of Kingston Hospital to raise £750,000 to improve the treatment of patients with dementia.[22]

Personal life

He lives in Kew, London[23] and is married with two children.[11] He is a regular runner, having completed four marathons, and he runs weekly in the Richmond Park Parkrun.

References

  1. ↑ Birth certificate. HMG.
  2. 1 2 Wickham, Chris (14 May 2010). "Ex-Richmond Council leader Serge Lourie loses seat after 28 years". Richmond and Twickenham Times. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
  3. ↑ UKHT Annual Report 1987. United Kingdom Housing Trust.
  4. ↑ Annual Report 31 March 2001. Kingston Hospital NHS Trust.
  5. ↑ Annual Reports 1989–92. Sanctuary Housing Association.
  6. ↑ Annual reports 1976 and 1977. Help the Aged.
  7. ↑ "London Pension Fund Authority – new appointments to Board". Local Government Chronicle. 15 July 1998. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
  8. ↑ "Livingstone revamps Pension Fund Board". Local Government Chronicle. 7 July 2001. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
  9. ↑ Old Pauline Club Directory 2010.
  10. ↑ Bate, Jonathan and Goodman, Jessica (2014). Worcester: Portrait of an Oxford College. Third Millennium Information. p. 216. ISBN 1906507724.
  11. 1 2 Early, Catherine (9 March 2007). "Parking charge pioneer". Planning Resource. Haymarket Media Group Ltd. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
  12. ↑ PriceWaterhouseCoopers Alumni London Directory. PriceWaterhouseCoopers. p. 147.
  13. ↑ "All members of Westminster City Council". Westminster City Council Election Results. www.election.demon.co.uk. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
  14. ↑ GLC Minutes 1976. Greater London Council.
  15. ↑ Minutes 1990–1994. London Boroughs Grants Scheme.
  16. ↑ Lourie, Serge (October 2001). Report of the Independent Panel on Police Authority Members' Allowances. Association of Police Authorities. p. 3.
  17. ↑ "Home Secretary announces new members of Metropolitan Police Committee" (Press release). Central Office of Information. 29 July 1998.
  18. ↑ "Trustees". Richmond Charities. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
  19. ↑ "Kew Community Trust". Companies in the UK.
  20. ↑ "Contact us". Poems in the Waiting Room.
  21. ↑ "Our Board". Cultural Co-operation. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
  22. ↑ Surrey Comet. Surrey Comet http://www.surreycomet.co.uk/news/12886917.Kingston_Hospital_to_launch___750_000_fundraising_appeal_to_improve_dementia_patients__stay/. Retrieved 2015-04-14. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  23. ↑ "List of Council members by ward and political party" (PDF). London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. 23 June 2008. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
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