Trustees

 

Craig has over 25 years experience as a business leader, specialising in communications and public affairs. Working with some of the largest companies in the UK, Craig has advised global firms, leading UK PLCs, CEOs and Board Chairs on high-profile, complex reputational and policy issues and in this time has successfully built three leading independent consultancies.

Craig leads the SVC Public Affairs Team in the UK for FGS Global, where he is a Partner.

As well as a successful career in business, Craig has advised and supported a number of charities and voluntary organisations.

Paul is a chartered accountant and currently Managing Partner at Arram Berlyn Gardner LLP, a medium-sized accountancy firm based in the City of London. He acts for a diverse range of businesses and high-net-worth individuals and has specialist expertise within the property sector.

 

Paul has been involved with the Holocaust Educational Trust from its inception, initially in an audit capacity and since 2008 as Honorary Treasurer. Outside of work he enjoys spending time with his family, overseas travel and running marathons.

Sam is CEO of the Education Partnerships Group which works with Governments around the world to help strengthen their education systems. Before that he has worked as an Executive Director of Teach First, responsible for one of the largest teacher training programmes in the UK, and the senior policy adviser to the then UK Secretary of State for Education.

 

In this latter role he was particularly involved in the development of England’s academy school system, the pupil premium, teacher training reforms and creating a peer-led model for school improvement. 

 

Sam did his BA at Oxford University and has Masters’ qualifications from Oxford and Birkbeck. He is a governor of Woodside High School in Tottenham and a board member of the Teacher Development Trust and ResearchED.

Dame Helen is a Holocaust educator and leads many adult study trips to Holocaust-touched countries. She chairs the Board of Trustees for the Jewish Heritage Foundation. She is an active patron/director of the Rwandan Sisterhood and leads an annual working educational trip to Rwanda to support genocide-touched women. 

 

In 2012, Helen was made Dame Commander of the British Empire for her services to national education and Holocaust education and in September 2018 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Education by the University of Hertfordshire.

Amelia is a final-year history undergraduate at the University of Warwick. Her involvement with the Holocaust Educational Trust began in 2014 when she completed the Lessons from Auschwitz Project and was subsequently appointed as a Regional Ambassador with the Trust.

 

In her role as a Regional Ambassador, she has organised survivor talks, workshops and commemorative events, and has been fortunate to develop a nuanced understanding of the Holocaust through Ambassador Study Visits to Yad Vashem and Budapest.

 

Within her position as a Trustee, Amelia is eager to harness her diverse international experiences and the transformative power of education to empower young people to become proactive global citizens.

Mike became informally involved with the Trust from 2006 and has been a Trustee since 2012. He chairs the Trust’s Operations and Governance Sub-Committee. He is an executive mentor and charity trustee. He is currently also Treasurer of the Institute of Jewish Policy Research and a Governor at Westminster Academy.
 
He was previously a senior partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he spent almost 40 years. Latterly he was responsible for managing the firm’s relationships with some of its major clients. He was also twice elected to the firm’s internal governance Board. He is married with two adult children and three grandchildren.

 

Ed is responsible for global Government & Public Affairs at The Lego Group. He has been on the board of the Trust since 2012 and serves as a Governor at Alma Primary School in Whetstone, London. 

He has a Bachelor’s degree in Politics from the University of Nottingham and a Master’s degree in Government, Policy and Politics from Birkbeck College, University of London. Ed lives in London with his wife Charlene and four children.

Hannah Lewis MBE
Hannah is a Holocaust survivor who was born on 1st June 1937 in Włodawa, Poland. In 1943, Hannah and her family were rounded up and forcibly marched to a labour camp in a village called Adampol. Over time, most of her family disappeared. Her father and his cousin managed to escape and joined the partisans, but her mother was murdered in the camp. Hannah was finally liberated by a Soviet soldier who picked her out of a trench dirty and very hungry.  
 
Hannah now lives in London having married in 1961 and had four children and eight grandchildren. She has been sharing her experiences in schools and universities for several years so that young people today can seek to understand the impact the Holocaust has had on the contemporary world.

 

You can read Hannah’s testimony here.

Marilyn Ofer 

Marilyn has been on the Fundraising Sub-Committee of the Holocaust Education Trust since 2001 and became a Trustee in 2015. In addition to her work for the Trust she also co-chairs the Eyal and Marilyn Ofer Family Foundation and serves on the International Council for Tate Museum, the Chairman’s Council for The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the International Council for The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s (MET) and the Circle of Friends for the Foundation Giacometti. 

 

Marilyn and her husband, Eyal Ofer, have 4 children. She was born in London and lives between Monaco, London and New York.