Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild
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Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, Bt
, OM
, GBE
, FBA (born 29 April 1936) is a British
investment banker and a member of the prominent Rothschild family
of bankers. He is also Honorary President of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research.
by his first wife Barbara Judith Rothschild née Hutchinson. His mother converted to Judaism
(in the Orthodox denomination) upon marrying his father. Rothschild was educated at Eton College
and then at Christ Church, Oxford
, where he gained a First
in history, tutored by Hugh Trevor-Roper.
In 1961, Rothschild married Serena Mary Dunn
, a granddaughter of Canadian
financier Sir James Dunn
, and they have four children:
in London
, before resigning in 1980 due to a family dispute. The chairmanship of the bank had passed from his father, who had chosen to follow a scientific career and had lost control of the majority voting shares, to his cousin Sir Evelyn Robert de Rothschild
, and Jacob felt that his aspirations would be thwarted. He sold his minority stake in the bank, but took independent control of Rothschild Investment Trust (now RIT Capital Partners plc), an investment trust listed on the London Stock Exchange
.
After resigning from the bank in 1980, Jacob Rothschild went on to found J. Rothschild Assurance Group (now St. James's Place
) with Sir Mark Weinberg in 1991. In 1989, he joined forces with Sir James Goldsmith
and Kerry Packer
, in an unsuccessful bid for British American Tobacco
.
Today, Jacob is Chairman of RIT Capital Partners plc, one of the largest investment trust quoted on the London Stock Exchange with a net asset value of about £2 billion. He is Chairman of J Rothschild Capital Management, a subsidiary of RIT Capital Partners plc. In 2006, Jacob became a Founding Partner and Advisory Board Member of Xander Real Estate (India). He is also a Member of the Council for the Duchy of Cornwall for HRH The Prince of Wales and a member of the International Advisory Board of The Blackstone Group. He also retains many other venture capital and property interests.
From November 2003 until his retirement in 2008, he was Deputy Chairman of BSkyB Television and until 2008 he was a Director of RHJ International.
's shares in YUKOS
passed to him under a deal they concluded prior to Khodorkovsky's arrest.
In November 2010, an undisclosed entity affiliated with Rothschild purchased a 5.0% equity interest in Genie Energy, a subsidiary of IDT Corporation, for $10.0 million. Shortly thereafter, potential 2012 U.S. Presidential candidate Sarah Palin
hired former IDT executive Michael Glassner as her chief of staff.
and maintains strong personal and business links with Henry Kissinger
.
His country estate has been a regular venue for visiting heads of state including Presidents Ronald Reagan
and Bill Clinton
. Margaret Thatcher
received French President François Mitterrand
there at a summit in 1990. He hosted the European Economic Round Table conference in 2002, attended by such figures as James Wolfensohn
, former president of the World Bank
, Nicky Oppenheimer
, Warren Buffett
and Arnold Schwarzenegger
.
from 1985 to 1991, and from 1992 to 1998, chairman of the National Heritage Memorial Fund
. From 1994 to 1998, and at the invitation of the Prime Minister, he was chairman of the British National Heritage Lottery Fund responsible for distributing the proceeds of the National Lottery to the heritage sector, an influential post which oversaw the distribution of £1.2 billion in grants.
In the past, Jacob has also been a Trustee of the State Hermitage Museum of St Petersburg (retired 2008); a Trustee of the Qatar Museums Authority
(retired 2010); Chairman of the Pritzker Price for Architecture (2002–2004) ; Chairman of both the Gilbert Collection Trust and the Hermitage Development Trust, Somerset House ; a Trustee and Honorary Fellow of the Courtauld Institute, Somerset House ; and a Trustee of the Ashmolean Museum Oxford (retired 2008) .
He was especially active in the project to restore Somerset House
in London, for which he helped secure the Gilbert Collection and ensured the long-term future of the Courtauld Institute of Art
. As a private project, he carried out the restoration of Spencer House, one of the finest surviving 18th century London townhouses, adjacent to his own offices.
In 1988, he inherited from his aunt, Dorothy de Rothschild
, the Waddesdon
and Eythrope
estates in Buckinghamshire
, and began a close association with Waddesdon Manor
, the house and grounds which were built by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild in the 1880s and bequeathed to the National Trust
in 1957 by his cousin, James A. de Rothschild. He has been a major benefactor of the restoration of Waddesdon Manor through a private family charitable trust and, in an unusual arrangement, has been given authority by the National Trust to run Waddesdon Manor as a semi-independent operation. The cellars at Waddesdon Manor house his personal collection of 15,000 bottles of Rothschild wines dating as far back as 1870.
Open to the public, Waddesdon attracts over 300,000 visitors annually and has won many awards over the last 15 years, including Museum of the Year Award and Best National Trust Property .
In 1993, he joined with John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover
to set up the Butrint Foundation to record and conserve the archaeological site of Butrint
in Albania
, close to his holiday home on Corfu
. Today, Jacob remains Chairman of the Butrint Foundation .
Lord Rothschild has also followed the Rothschild family's charitable interests in Israel
and is the chairman of Yad Hanadiv
, the family foundation which gave the Knesset
and the Supreme Court
buildings to Israel. He is also President of The Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe and Patron and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Rothschild Foundation . In addition, he is Honorary President of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research
.
Furthermore, Lord Rothschild has served as a Member of the Arts & Humanities Research Board, set up by the British Government, is an honorary fellow of the British Academy and a Trustee of the Prince of Wales’ Prince’s Charities Foundation .
In the past, he has been a Member of the UK Main Honours Board, (retired 2008); Chairman of the Honours Committee for Arts and Media (retired 2008); Trustee of the Edmond J Safra Foundation (retired 2010); and a Member of committee of the Henry J Kravis Prize for Creative Philanthropy (retired 2010).
In Great Britain:
• 2002 awarded the Order of Merit by Her Majesty the Queen. Members of the Order are limited in number to 24 and the order is given to those who have rendered exceptionally meritorious service in the field of the arts, learning, literature and science
• 1997 – awarded the GBE (Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire)
• Awarded honorary degrees from the universities of Oxford, London, Exeter, Keele and Newcastle and Warwick
• Honorary Fellow of the British Academy, The Royal College of Art, The Royal Academy of Music, the Royal Institute of British Architects and King’s College London
• “Apollo Personality of the Year” 2002
• Mont Blanc Award 2004
• Tercentenary Medal for St Petersburg – 2005
• Honorary Student of Christchurch, Oxford – March 2006
• Honorary Fellow of the Courtauld Institute of Art 2007
In the USA:
• The Hadrian Award from the World Monuments Fund - 1995
• The Classical America – Arthur Ross Award 1998
• The Iris Foundation Award – the BARD Institute 1999
• The Centennial Medal of the American Academy in Rome - 2002
• The Kennedy Center’s International Committee Lifetime Achievement Gold Medal in the Arts Award 2006
• Royal Oak Foundation “Timeless Design Award”
In Continental Europe:
• Commander of the Order of Henry the Navigator (1985) – Portugal
• Europa Nostra Medal of Honour in Brussels – 2003
• Freedom of the City of Saranda – Albania 2003
• Honoree of the Gennadius Library Trustees’ Annual Award 2010
In Israel:
• The Sir Winston Churchill Award (2004)
• The Weizmann Award - (50th Anniversary of the State of Israel)
• Honorary degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Honorary fellowships from City of Jerusalem and the Israel Museum, the Commonwealth Jewish Council Award.
Baronet
A baronet or the rare female equivalent, a baronetess , is the holder of a hereditary baronetcy awarded by the British Crown...
, OM
Order of Merit
The Order of Merit is a British dynastic order recognising distinguished service in the armed forces, science, art, literature, or for the promotion of culture...
, GBE
Order of the British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...
, FBA (born 29 April 1936) is a British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
investment banker and a member of the prominent Rothschild family
Rothschild family
The Rothschild family , known as The House of Rothschild, or more simply as the Rothschilds, is a Jewish-German family that established European banking and finance houses starting in the late 18th century...
of bankers. He is also Honorary President of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research.
Early Life & Family
Born in 1936, he is the eldest son of Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron RothschildVictor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild
Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, GBE, GM, FRS was a biologist by training, a cricketer and a member of the prominent Rothschild family...
by his first wife Barbara Judith Rothschild née Hutchinson. His mother converted to Judaism
Conversion to Judaism
Conversion to Judaism is a formal act undertaken by a non-Jewish person who wishes to be recognised as a full member of the Jewish community. A Jewish conversion is both a religious act and an expression of association with the Jewish people...
(in the Orthodox denomination) upon marrying his father. Rothschild was educated at Eton College
Eton College
Eton College, often referred to simply as Eton, is a British independent school for boys aged 13 to 18. It was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as "The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor"....
and then at Christ Church, Oxford
Christ Church, Oxford
Christ Church or house of Christ, and thus sometimes known as The House), is one of the largest constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England...
, where he gained a First
British undergraduate degree classification
The British undergraduate degree classification system is a grading scheme for undergraduate degrees in the United Kingdom...
in history, tutored by Hugh Trevor-Roper.
In 1961, Rothschild married Serena Mary Dunn
Serena Dunn Rothschild
Serena, Lady Rothschild, born Serena Mary Dunn on 28 April 1935 is an English socialite and Thoroughbred racehorse owner. She is the daughter of Sir Philip Gordon Dunn and Lady Mary Sybil St. Clair-Erskine. Her sister is the writer Nell Dunn...
, a granddaughter of Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
financier Sir James Dunn
James Hamet Dunn
Sir James Hamet Dunn, 1st Baronet was a major Canadian financier and industrialist during the first half of the 20th century.-Early life:...
, and they have four children:
- Hannah Mary (b. 1962)
- Beth Matilda (b. 1964)
- Emily "Emmy" Magda (b. 1967)
- Nathaniel Philip Victor JamesNathaniel Philip RothschildNathaniel Philip Victor James Rothschild , also known as Nat, is a British-born financier who has settled in Switzerland, and a scion of the prominent Rothschild family. He is the Chairman of "JNR Limited", an investment advisory business primarily focused on emerging markets and the metals, mining...
(b. 1971)
Business Career
From 1963 Rothschild worked for the family bank N M Rothschild & SonsN M Rothschild & Sons
N M Rothschild & Sons is a private investment banking company, belonging to the Rothschild family...
in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, before resigning in 1980 due to a family dispute. The chairmanship of the bank had passed from his father, who had chosen to follow a scientific career and had lost control of the majority voting shares, to his cousin Sir Evelyn Robert de Rothschild
Evelyn Robert de Rothschild
Sir Evelyn Robert Adrian de Rothschild is a British financier, and a member of the Rothschild family.-Early life:The son of Anthony Gustav de Rothschild and Yvonne Cahen d'Anvers , he was named after his uncle Evelyn Achille de Rothschild who was killed in action in World War I...
, and Jacob felt that his aspirations would be thwarted. He sold his minority stake in the bank, but took independent control of Rothschild Investment Trust (now RIT Capital Partners plc), an investment trust listed on the London Stock Exchange
London Stock Exchange
The London Stock Exchange is a stock exchange located in the City of London within the United Kingdom. , the Exchange had a market capitalisation of US$3.7495 trillion, making it the fourth-largest stock exchange in the world by this measurement...
.
After resigning from the bank in 1980, Jacob Rothschild went on to found J. Rothschild Assurance Group (now St. James's Place
St. James's Place
St. James's Place plc is a UK-based wealth management business. It is headquartered in Cirencester and has 20 regional offices throughout the UK. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1997 and is now a FTSE 250 company.-History:...
) with Sir Mark Weinberg in 1991. In 1989, he joined forces with Sir James Goldsmith
James Goldsmith
Sir James Michael "Jimmy" Goldsmith was an Anglo-French billionaire financier and tycoon. Towards the end of his life, he became a magazine publisher and a politician. In 1994, he was elected to represent France as a Member of the European Parliament and he subsequently founded the short-lived...
and Kerry Packer
Kerry Packer
Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer, AC was an Australian media tycoon. The son of Sir Frank Packer and Gretel Bullmore, the Packer family company owned controlling interest in both the Nine television network and leading Australian publishing company Australian Consolidated Press, which were later...
, in an unsuccessful bid for British American Tobacco
British American Tobacco
British American Tobacco p.l.c. is a global tobacco company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s second largest quoted tobacco company by global market share , with a leading position in more than 50 countries and a presence in more than 180 countries...
.
Today, Jacob is Chairman of RIT Capital Partners plc, one of the largest investment trust quoted on the London Stock Exchange with a net asset value of about £2 billion. He is Chairman of J Rothschild Capital Management, a subsidiary of RIT Capital Partners plc. In 2006, Jacob became a Founding Partner and Advisory Board Member of Xander Real Estate (India). He is also a Member of the Council for the Duchy of Cornwall for HRH The Prince of Wales and a member of the International Advisory Board of The Blackstone Group. He also retains many other venture capital and property interests.
From November 2003 until his retirement in 2008, he was Deputy Chairman of BSkyB Television and until 2008 he was a Director of RHJ International.
Oil interests
In 2003 Rothschild came under scrutiny when Russian oil industrialist Mikhail KhodorkovskyMikhail Khodorkovsky
Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky is a Russian prisoner, considered by some - such as Amnesty International - to have been imprisoned for political reasons, jailed until 2016 and a former Russian oligarch and businessman...
's shares in YUKOS
YUKOS
OJSC "Yukos Oil Company" was a petroleum company in Russia which, until 2003, was controlled by Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky and a number of other prominent Russian businessmen. After Yukos was bankrupted, Khodorkovsky was convicted and sent to prison.Yukos headquarters was located in...
passed to him under a deal they concluded prior to Khodorkovsky's arrest.
In November 2010, an undisclosed entity affiliated with Rothschild purchased a 5.0% equity interest in Genie Energy, a subsidiary of IDT Corporation, for $10.0 million. Shortly thereafter, potential 2012 U.S. Presidential candidate Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
Sarah Louise Palin is an American politician, commentator and author. As the Republican Party nominee for Vice President in the 2008 presidential election, she was the first Alaskan on the national ticket of a major party and first Republican woman nominated for the vice-presidency.She was...
hired former IDT executive Michael Glassner as her chief of staff.
Connections
From his headquarters in St James's Place in London, Jacob Rothschild has cultivated an influential set of clients, business associates and friends who have extended his interests far beyond the normal scope of a banker. He was a close personal friend of Diana, Princess of WalesDiana, Princess of Wales
Diana, Princess of Wales was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, whom she married on 29 July 1981, and an international charity and fundraising figure, as well as a preeminent celebrity of the late 20th century...
and maintains strong personal and business links with Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger
Heinz Alfred "Henry" Kissinger is a German-born American academic, political scientist, diplomat, and businessman. He is a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and...
.
His country estate has been a regular venue for visiting heads of state including Presidents Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....
and Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
. Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990...
received French President François Mitterrand
François Mitterrand
François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand was the 21st President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra, serving from 1981 until 1995. He is the longest-serving President of France and, as leader of the Socialist Party, the only figure from the left so far elected President...
there at a summit in 1990. He hosted the European Economic Round Table conference in 2002, attended by such figures as James Wolfensohn
James Wolfensohn
Sir James David Wolfensohn AO KBE FKC was the ninth president of the World Bank Group.-Early life:James Wolfensohn was born in Sydney, Australia, on 1 December 1933...
, former president of the World Bank
World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programmes.The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty...
, Nicky Oppenheimer
Nicky Oppenheimer
Nicholas "Nicky" F. Oppenheimer is a South African businessman, the chairman of the De Beers diamond mining company and its subsidiary, the Diamond Trading Company. He also has a large financial interest in the diversified mining company Anglo American. In November 2011 the Oppenheimer family sold...
, Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett
Warren Edward Buffett is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is widely regarded as one of the most successful investors in the world. Often introduced as "legendary investor, Warren Buffett", he is the primary shareholder, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He is...
and Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American former professional bodybuilder, actor, businessman, investor, and politician. Schwarzenegger served as the 38th Governor of California from 2003 until 2011....
.
Philanthropy
Lord Rothschild has played a prominent part in Arts philanthropy in Britain. He was Chairman of Trustees of the National GalleryNational Gallery, London
The National Gallery is an art museum on Trafalgar Square, London, United Kingdom. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The gallery is an exempt charity, and a non-departmental public body of the Department for Culture, Media...
from 1985 to 1991, and from 1992 to 1998, chairman of the National Heritage Memorial Fund
National Heritage Memorial Fund
The National Heritage Memorial Fund is a non-departmental public body set up under the National Heritage Act 1980 in memory of people who gave their lives for the United Kingdom....
. From 1994 to 1998, and at the invitation of the Prime Minister, he was chairman of the British National Heritage Lottery Fund responsible for distributing the proceeds of the National Lottery to the heritage sector, an influential post which oversaw the distribution of £1.2 billion in grants.
In the past, Jacob has also been a Trustee of the State Hermitage Museum of St Petersburg (retired 2008); a Trustee of the Qatar Museums Authority
Qatar Museums Authority
The Qatar Museums Authority is the peak body of museums in Qatar. The QMA was founded in late 2005, its CEO is Abdullah Al-Najjar. and since 2008 its director is Roger Mandle. The QMA was the bid leader for Qatar's successful candidature to join the UNESCO heritage panel in 2011...
(retired 2010); Chairman of the Pritzker Price for Architecture (2002–2004) ; Chairman of both the Gilbert Collection Trust and the Hermitage Development Trust, Somerset House ; a Trustee and Honorary Fellow of the Courtauld Institute, Somerset House ; and a Trustee of the Ashmolean Museum Oxford (retired 2008) .
Somerset House
Somerset House is a large building situated on the south side of the Strand in central London, England, overlooking the River Thames, just east of Waterloo Bridge. The central block of the Neoclassical building, the outstanding project of the architect Sir William Chambers, dates from 1776–96. It...
in London, for which he helped secure the Gilbert Collection and ensured the long-term future of the Courtauld Institute of Art
Courtauld Institute of Art
The Courtauld Institute of Art is a self-governing college of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art. The Courtauld is one of the premier centres for the teaching of art history in the world; it was the only History of Art department in the UK to be awarded a top...
. As a private project, he carried out the restoration of Spencer House, one of the finest surviving 18th century London townhouses, adjacent to his own offices.
In 1988, he inherited from his aunt, Dorothy de Rothschild
Dorothy de Rothschild
Dorothy de Rothschild was an English philanthropist and activist for Jewish affairs who married into the Rothschild international financial dynasty....
, the Waddesdon
Waddesdon
Waddesdon is a village within the Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England, 6 miles from Aylesbury on the A41 road. The centre of a civil parish, including the hamlets of Eythrope, Wormstone and Woodham, Waddesdon was an agricultural settlement with milling, silk weaving and lace making...
and Eythrope
Eythrope
Eythrope is a hamlet and country house in the parish of Waddesdon, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located to the south east of the main village of Waddesdon, and is the present home of a branch of the Rothschild family....
estates in Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan home county in South East England. The county town is Aylesbury, the largest town in the ceremonial county is Milton Keynes and largest town in the non-metropolitan county is High Wycombe....
, and began a close association with Waddesdon Manor
Waddesdon Manor
Waddesdon Manor is a country house in the village of Waddesdon, in Buckinghamshire, England. The house was built in the Neo-Renaissance style of a French château between 1874 and 1889 for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild . Since this was the preferred style of the Rothschilds it became also known as...
, the house and grounds which were built by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild in the 1880s and bequeathed to the National Trust
National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty
The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, usually known as the National Trust, is a conservation organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland...
in 1957 by his cousin, James A. de Rothschild. He has been a major benefactor of the restoration of Waddesdon Manor through a private family charitable trust and, in an unusual arrangement, has been given authority by the National Trust to run Waddesdon Manor as a semi-independent operation. The cellars at Waddesdon Manor house his personal collection of 15,000 bottles of Rothschild wines dating as far back as 1870.
Open to the public, Waddesdon attracts over 300,000 visitors annually and has won many awards over the last 15 years, including Museum of the Year Award and Best National Trust Property .
In 1993, he joined with John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover
John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover
John Davan Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover, KG is the President of J Sainsbury, a British businessman and politician. He sits in the House of Lords as a member of the Conservative Party.-Early and private life:...
to set up the Butrint Foundation to record and conserve the archaeological site of Butrint
Butrint
Butrint was an ancient Greek and later Roman city in Epirus. In modern times it is an archeological site in Sarandë District, Albania, some 14 kilometres south of Sarandë and close to the Greek border. It was known in antiquity as Βουθρωτόν Bouthroton or Βουθρώτιος Bouthrotios in Ancient Greek...
in Albania
Albania
Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...
, close to his holiday home on Corfu
Corfu
Corfu is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the second largest of the Ionian Islands, and, including its small satellite islands, forms the edge of the northwestern frontier of Greece. The island is part of the Corfu regional unit, and is administered as a single municipality. The...
. Today, Jacob remains Chairman of the Butrint Foundation .
Lord Rothschild has also followed the Rothschild family's charitable interests in Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
and is the chairman of Yad Hanadiv
Yad Hanadiv
Yad Hanadiv is a Rothschild family philanthropic Foundation in Israel. Currently, Yad Hanadiv operates in five fields: Education, Environment, Academic Excellence, Civil Society and Arab Community...
, the family foundation which gave the Knesset
Knesset
The Knesset is the unicameral legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem.-Role in Israeli Government :The legislative branch of the Israeli government, the Knesset passes all laws, elects the President and Prime Minister , approves the cabinet, and supervises the work of the government...
and the Supreme Court
Supreme Court of Israel
The Supreme Court is at the head of the court system and highest judicial instance in Israel. The Supreme Court sits in Jerusalem.The area of its jurisdiction is all of Israel and the Israeli-occupied territories. A ruling of the Supreme Court is binding upon every court, other than the Supreme...
buildings to Israel. He is also President of The Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe and Patron and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Rothschild Foundation . In addition, he is Honorary President of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research
Institute for Jewish Policy Research
The Institute for Jewish Policy Research , founded as the Institute of Jewish Affairs, is a London-based research institute and think tank. It specializes in contemporary Jewish affairs, with a particular focus on Jews in Britain and across Europe...
.
Furthermore, Lord Rothschild has served as a Member of the Arts & Humanities Research Board, set up by the British Government, is an honorary fellow of the British Academy and a Trustee of the Prince of Wales’ Prince’s Charities Foundation .
In the past, he has been a Member of the UK Main Honours Board, (retired 2008); Chairman of the Honours Committee for Arts and Media (retired 2008); Trustee of the Edmond J Safra Foundation (retired 2010); and a Member of committee of the Henry J Kravis Prize for Creative Philanthropy (retired 2010).
Styles and honours
The Rt. Hon. The Lord Rothschild OM Bt. GBE DCL LLD DUniv PhDIn Great Britain:
• 2002 awarded the Order of Merit by Her Majesty the Queen. Members of the Order are limited in number to 24 and the order is given to those who have rendered exceptionally meritorious service in the field of the arts, learning, literature and science
• 1997 – awarded the GBE (Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire)
• Awarded honorary degrees from the universities of Oxford, London, Exeter, Keele and Newcastle and Warwick
• Honorary Fellow of the British Academy, The Royal College of Art, The Royal Academy of Music, the Royal Institute of British Architects and King’s College London
• “Apollo Personality of the Year” 2002
• Mont Blanc Award 2004
• Tercentenary Medal for St Petersburg – 2005
• Honorary Student of Christchurch, Oxford – March 2006
• Honorary Fellow of the Courtauld Institute of Art 2007
In the USA:
• The Hadrian Award from the World Monuments Fund - 1995
• The Classical America – Arthur Ross Award 1998
• The Iris Foundation Award – the BARD Institute 1999
• The Centennial Medal of the American Academy in Rome - 2002
• The Kennedy Center’s International Committee Lifetime Achievement Gold Medal in the Arts Award 2006
• Royal Oak Foundation “Timeless Design Award”
In Continental Europe:
• Commander of the Order of Henry the Navigator (1985) – Portugal
• Europa Nostra Medal of Honour in Brussels – 2003
• Freedom of the City of Saranda – Albania 2003
• Honoree of the Gennadius Library Trustees’ Annual Award 2010
In Israel:
• The Sir Winston Churchill Award (2004)
• The Weizmann Award - (50th Anniversary of the State of Israel)
• Honorary degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Honorary fellowships from City of Jerusalem and the Israel Museum, the Commonwealth Jewish Council Award.