Meet the Trustees

Lord Daniel Finkelstein is a member of the House of Lords, a writer, and a columnist for The Times newspaper. He has previously been its Executive Editor and Chief Leader Writer.

He is the author of the award-winning bestselling book Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival (2023). Lord Finkelstein is a patron of the Wiener Holocaust Library and is the son of Mirjam Wiener, a survivor of Bergen-Belsen and a grandson of the holocaust archivist Alfred Wiener. His father Ludwik survived Soviet exile to Siberia.

His writing is mainly on political and social affairs, although he is also well known for his football column, the Fink Tank, which ran for 17 years. He has won multiple awards, including being named political commentator of the year four times. He is well known to viewers of programmes like Newsnight and Politics Live and to listeners of Radio 4's News Quiz.

Lord Finkelstein is also a member of the Board of directors of Chelsea Football Club.

During his career he has provided political advice to prime minister John Major and, as director of policy, to William Hague as opposition leader.

In August 2020 he published Everything in Moderation, a collection of his writing. His family memoir was published in June 2023.

He was awarded the OBE for services to the prime minister in 1997 and made a member of the House of Lords in 2013.