Jonathan Alexander Metliss
Jonathan Alexander Metliss (born 12 June 1949) is a British corporate lawyer and Zionist activist. He is a trustee of the Henry Jackson Society, a member of Conservative Friends of Israel and an executive of the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre.
Education and career
Metliss graduated from the University of Southampton in 1970. He qualified as a solicitor in October 1973 and joined Nabarro Nathanson before becoming a merchant banker with Capel Court Corporation in Sydney. [1] In 1978 he returned to London and joined Berwin Leighton as an assistant solicitor. In 1982 when Stanley J. Berwin, one of the partners of Berwin Leighton, left to found his own firm SJ Berwin, Metliss became a founder member. He served as senior corporate finance partner and head of the firm's Sports Business Group until 2003 when he became a consultant to the firm. [2] In October 2008 he joined Davenport Lyons as a partner in the Corporate Department. [3]
Israel and Zionism
Metliss's entry in Debrett's People of Today notes his involvement in a number of Jewish organisations including several Zionist organisations and other groups affiliated to the academic and business communities in Israel.
As at 7 September 2010 Debrett's listed him as a member of Conservative Friends of Israel, a executive of the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM), a joint secretary and executive member of the Parliamentary Committee Against Antisemitism and a member of the Inter-Parliamentary Committee Against Anti-Semitism (which perhaps should refer to the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism).
Debrett's also lists Metliss as a member of the Executive of the Israeli British Business Council; a director and member of the Executive of the British-Israel Chamber of Commerce; a director of the Weizmann Institute Foundation and a vice-chairman of the Friends of the Weizmann Institute (UK) – both of which are connected to the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel; a chairman of the British Friends of Haifa University, a member of the Advisory Board of Tel Aviv University Business School and the Board of Governors of Haifa University. [4] He is also vice president of the Commonwwealth Jewish Council and according to the Charity Commission is a trustee of the British Friends of Yad Vashem – Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. [5]
Notes
- ↑ PDF Copy of Davenportlyons.com, About us > Our people > Jonathan Metliss [Created 7 September 2010]
- ↑ PDF Copy of Davenportlyons.com, About us > Our people > Jonathan Metliss [Created 7 September 2010]; Debrett's People of Today, Jonathan Alexander Metliss [Accessed 7 September 2010]
- ↑ PDF Copy of Davenportlyons.com, About us > Our people > Jonathan Metliss [Created 7 September 2010]
- ↑ Debrett's People of Today, Jonathan Alexander Metliss [Accessed 7 September 2010]
- ↑ Charity Commission, British Friends of Yad Vashem > Contact and trustees [Accessed 7 September 2010]
