Serge Lourie

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

Alexander Serge Lourie
Born (1946-02-22) 22 February 1946
London
NationalityBritish
Spouse(s)Julia

Early life and education

Lourie was born on 22 February 1946. He is of Russian extraction and is the great-grandson of Lev Philippovitch Wolkenstein. His mother was Anna Rootchenko.[8] 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]

Career

Lourie 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.

He was elected as an SDP–Liberal Alliance councillor for Kew on Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council in 1982, becoming a Liberal Democrat following the merger of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the Liberal Party in 1988. In 1990, he was re-elected as a Liberal Democrat.[1] Lourie spent fourteen years as Leader, and also served as Deputy Leader and Leader of the Opposition. He lost his seat in 2010.

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 Greater 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 was a patron of Cultural Co-operation, a charity that ran world music festivals.

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.[21]

Personal life

He lives in Kew, Greater London and is married with two children.[11] He is a regular runner, having completed five marathons, and he runs frequently in the Richmond Park parkrun.[8]

References
  1. Wickham, Chris (14 May 2010). "Ex-Richmond Council leader Serge Lourie loses seat after 28 years". Richmond and Twickenham Times. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
  2. UKHT Annual Report 1987. United Kingdom Housing Trust.
  3. Annual Report 31 March 2001. Kingston Hospital NHS Trust.
  4. Annual Reports 1989–92. Sanctuary Housing Association.
  5. Annual reports 1976 and 1977. Help the Aged.
  6. "London Pension Fund Authority – new appointments to Board". Local Government Chronicle. 15 July 1998. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
  7. "Livingstone revamps Pension Fund Board". Local Government Chronicle. 7 July 2001. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
  8. "Ex council leader to run the Virgin Money London Marathon for Alzheimer's Research UK". Alzheimer's Research UK. 30 March 2016. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  9. Old Pauline Club Directory 2010.
  10. Bate, Jonathan & Goodman, Jessica (2014). Worcester: Portrait of an Oxford College. Third Millennium Information. p. 216. ISBN 1906507724.
  11. 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. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
  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. Sharman, Jon (14 April 2015). "Kingston Hospital to launch £750,000 fundraising appeal to improve dementia patients' stay". Surrey Comet. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
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