Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis is a director of the South African retailer Foschini Ltd. He is also the founder of the Israeli biotech company ProChon Biotech Limited.[1]
In October 2005, Defence Secretary Liam Fox flew to the United States with five newly elected MPs - Mark Harper, John Penrose, Brooks Newmark, Adam Holloway and Philip Dunne. In the register of members interests, all the MPs said their flights and accomodation had been paid for using a donation from Michael Lewis.[2]
Lewis was on the board of directors of Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM) between 6 September 2006 - 3 Dec 2007[3] and served as Vice Chairman until 2007, after which point 'he has had no involvement in the organisation, save as a donor', according to a clarification published in the Guardian.[4]
Another clarification in October 2011 by the Guardian said it had incorrectly stated that Lewis had arranged a trip in 2009 to a security seminar in Israel for Liam Fox's friend Adam Werritty. "Mr Lewis... remains a donor to Bicom but has never had involvement in Mr Werritty's travel arrangements".[5]
Lewis has donated £13,832 to Fox's defunct Atlantic Bridge charity.[6]
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BICOM - donor and former vice chair
Michael Lewis is a UK-based South African financier who served as a director of BICOM between September 2006 and December 2007. During his time he was reportedly the organisation's vice-chairman and is known to have donated a total of £25,000.[7] He has said that he has had no involvement in BICOM since 2007, but has confirmed he remains a donor.[8]
The Lewis family has supported other pro-Israel organisations in the UK in addition to BICOM. The family’s charitable foundation, the Stanley & Zea Lewis Family Foundation, donated a total of £193,239 to the United Jewish Israel Appeal between April 2009 and March 2011[9] and in 2011 pledged £3 million to the University of Oxford to fund the appointment of a Professor of Israel Studies.[10] Michael Lewis, who is a trustee of the family foundation, was a director of the United Jewish Israel Appeal from September 2001 to October 2007.
Affiliations
- Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre former deputy chairman.[11]
- Institute for Strategic Dialogue - Chairman[12]
- United Trust Bank Limited - director
- Axel Springer AG - Supervisory board member[13]
- Weidenfeld Scholarships and Leadership Programme -co-chair[14]
- Atlantic Bridge - former donor[15]
Connections
External resources
- Tim Shipman, Christian Gysin and Ian Drury, Tycoons who funded Fox's friend: Right-wing donors paid the bills for pair's globetrotting, dailymail.co.uk, 13 October 2011.
Notes
- ↑ ISD Board of Trustees, Institute for Strategic Dialogue, accessed 16 October 2011.
- ↑ Rupert Neate, Liam Fox took five MPs to Washington with donor's money, guardian.co.uk, 13 October 2011.
- ↑ BICOM Appointments 13 June 2012, Companies House via Powerbase.
- ↑ Rupert Neate, Liam Fox took five MPs to Washington with donor's money, guardian.co.uk, 13 October 2011
- ↑ Liam Doward, Liam Fox's Atlantic Bridge linked top Tories and Tea Party activists, guardian.co.uk, 15 October 2011, amended 19 October 2011
- ↑ Rupert Neate, Liam Fox took five MPs to Washington with donor's money, guardian.co.uk, 13 October 2011
- ↑ BICOM Accounts made up to 31 December 2007, p.4.
- ↑ See note accompanying Rupert Neate, ‘Liam Fox took five MPs to Washington with donor’s money’, The Guardian, 13 October 2011.
- ↑ Stanley & Zea Lewis Family Foundation Financial Statements Year Ended 31 March 2010; Stanley & Zea Lewis Family Foundation Financial Statements Year Ended 31 March 2011
- ↑ Lewis Group, > Overview > History. Annual Report 2010.
- ↑ Liam Doward, Liam Fox's Atlantic Bridge linked top Tories and Tea Party activists, guardian.co.uk, 15 October 2011.
- ↑ ISD Board of Trustees, Institute for Strategic Dialogue, accessed 16 October 2011.
- ↑ ISD Board of Trustees, Institute for Strategic Dialogue, accessed 16 October 2011.
- ↑ ISD Board of Trustees, Institute for Strategic Dialogue, accessed 16 October 2011.
- ↑ Liam Doward, Liam Fox's Atlantic Bridge linked top Tories and Tea Party activists, guardian.co.uk, 15 October 2011.
- ↑ Liam Doward, Liam Fox's Atlantic Bridge linked top Tories and Tea Party activists, guardian.co.uk, 15 October 2011.
