Martin Paisner

Martin Paisner (born 1 September 1943) was until 2020 a partner at Berwin Leighton Paisner, a company which traces part of its origins to a firm set up by in 1932 by Paisner’s father, Leslie Paisner, which represented major clients Penguin Books, Great Universal Stores and Forte Holdings in the 1940s and 1950s. The company is a result of the 2001 merger between Berwin Leighton and Paisner & Co. BLP Law About BLP, accessed 3 June 2015. 
In 2018, Bryan Cave merged with Berwin Leighton Paisner to create Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, led by Lisa Mayhew and Therese Pritchard. In 2020 Martin Paisner joined Payne Hicks Beach and became a partner there.Payne Hicks Beach, Martin Paisner CBE. Archived from phb.co.uk/our-people/profile/martin-paisner-cbe on 1 April 2022.
==Education==
Paisner was educated at St Paul’s School, London 1956-1961 between the ages of 13 and 18, then spent a year at the Sorbonne, Paris 1961-1962. He gained an MA Worcester College, University of Oxford 1962-1965 and then an LLM at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA 1966-1967. Woolf Institute Martin Paisner, accessed 28 November 2014.
==Family==
Paisner’s father, Leslie Paisner, founded Paisner & Co, which eventually became Leighton Berwin Paisner, when he retired he passed on his charitable trust to Martin and LBP to Martin’s brother Harold.
Harold is the managing partner of Berwin Leighton Paisner, president of Ben-Gurion University and chairman of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research.
Harold's son (Martin's nephew), Jonathan Paisner, is also a trained lawyer. He has worked at Leighton Berwin Paisner, Shore Capital Group and Puma Investments and currently works at Mathias Gentle Page Hassan, NetScientific and LMN Capital Partners.
==Career==
Paisner qualified as a solicitor in January 1970 and became a partner at Paisner & Co in 1972. In 1976, when his father, Leslie Paisner, the founder of Paisner & Co, retired the Paisner brothers took on extra responsibility with Martin appointed head of his father’s trusts practice and Harold becoming managing partner of Berwin Leighton Paisner. Suzi Ring Starting out strong ’Legal Week’’, 29 September 2011, accessed 23 November 2014. Paisner specializes in charity law and private client practice, and, according to the firm, has been 'instrumental in developing the firm’s acknowledged role as a leading adviser to charities.' BLP Law Martin Paisner, accessed 18 November 2014.
In April 2015, former MD Neville Eisenberg will replace Paisner as senior partner of BLP. Paisner is understood to not be leaving the firm and will be taking up a new role but as of March 2015 the new role has not been announced. Tom Moore Succeeding Paisner: Eisenberg to become senior partner at BLP when managing partner term ends Legal Business, 26 March 2015, accessed 27 March 2015.
===Controversies===
====Tony Blair====
In 2002 Paisner was revealed as one of the two trustees of the blind trust set up by Tony Blair and Cherie Blair, with Martin Kaye an accountant at BDO Stoy Hayward who has written for the think tank, Demos, named as the other. The trust was set up by the former prime minister and his wife to protect them from conflicting interests in their private financial affairs. Berwin Leighton Paisner have been involved in more than 100 government contracts, signifying a potential conflict of interest for Paisner. He denied any involvement in the firm’s government work and that he could not discuss the trust, saying “You’re trespassing on matters that I don’t feel it’s right for me to comment on at all”, “these are professional matters”. Lord Levy, Blair’s key party fundraiser and a member of the prime minister’s inner circle, helped raise money for the blind trust, and is said to be close to both Blair and Paisner having all met in through the charity Jewish Care. The details on the two trustees were revealed by Tim Stanley, a spokesman for Edward Ware Homes, the property company that sold two flats in Bristol to the trust in the incident dubbed ‘Cheriegate’, said the two trustees of the flats were listed as Martin Kaye and Martin David Paisner, something that was confirmed by Lloyds TSB bank. Nicholas Hellen, David Leppard and Robert Winnett Blair trusts sparks new crony row Sunday Times, 15 December 2002, accessed 1 December 2014.
====Valentine Rare Books====
In 2007 it was announced Martin was being sued by Valentine Rare Books for £400,000 in relation to an alleged breach of contract relating to a £2million book collection. Valentine Rare Books claims it was given a 17% share of the collection in 2003, when Paisner instructed the company to sell the books. However, after selling some of the books and dedicating time to find buyers for the collection, Valentine Rare Books claimed Paisner then restricted it from making further sales and disputed the company’s ownership. The company claim Paisner stifled its business, causing serious financial loss. David Jetuah Law firm tax partner facing £400,000 law suit Accountancy age, 22 February 2007, accessed 1 December 2014. Claire Ruckin BLP’s Paisner faces £400k rare book court battle Legal Week, 22 February 2007, accessed 24 December 2014.
===New Era housing estate===
The Weizmann Institute Foundation and Shaare Zedek, two companies on the board of which Paisner sits, were caught up in controversy, when they sold their 15% stakes in the New Era estate in London to a Mayfair based investor Westbrook Partners. The new owner was reportedly planning on tripling the rent, a move that will probably lead to the eviction of the current occupants. Comedian and political activist Russell Brand got behind the campaign for the occupants of the New Era estate to not be evicted from their homes.
When asked about the situation, Paisner said, “Had we [the trustees of The Weizmann Institute Foundation] had control it is of course possible that we might have our interest differently, but regrettably that was not the position”. He also said there was no way they could have found out prior to selling and they were doing what was best for the foundation. Robert Booth Families facing eviction from New Era estate outraged at landlord’s mansion Guardian, 26 November 2014, accessed 5 December 2014.
==Israel Advocacy==
In October 2015, Paisner signed a letter in The Guardian along with more than 150 people drawn from the arts and politics. The letter launched Culture for Coexistence, an organisation that opposes the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.Harriet Sherwood, 'Star authors call for Israeli-Palestinian dialogue rather than boycotts', The Guardian, 22 October 2015, accessed 23 October 2015
==Philanthropy==
Paisner is involved in many charities, having taken over his father’s trust practices. The majority of the charities Paisner is affiliated with help the Jewish community and have a Zionist point of view, including; The Adrienne and Leslie Sussman Charitable Trust, The Barnett and Sylvia Shine No 1 Charitable Trust, The Bluston Charitable Trust, British Friends of the Jerusalem Foundation, European Jewish Publication Society, Harvey Rosenblatt Charitable Trust, Holocaust Educational Trust, Janet Wolfson De Botton Charitable Trust, Kesztenbaum Family Charitable Trust, Maurice Wohl Charitable Foundation, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Peltz Trust, Phillips and Rubens Charitable Trust, Shaare Zedek (UK), Stella and Alexander Margulies Charitable Trust, Stuart Young Foundation, Weizmann Institute Foundation and Yoni Jesner Foundation.
===Charities===
Charity name
Charity number
Position
Dates position held
Co-trustees
The Adler Trust 
288685
Trustee
Clive Marks
The Adler 1991 Trust 
288685-1
Trustee
Parent company: The Adler Trust
The Adrienne and Leslie Sussman Charitable Trust
274955
Trustee
Adrienne Hadassah Sussman, Debra Sussman, Adam Sussman, Neal Sussman
The Ameca Trust
1121240
Trustee
29/08/2007-02/08/2010
Andrew Charles Vesey, Hugh Ronald Freedberg, Paul Roderick Spensley Thomas, Lorraine Gay Freedberg, Bettie Ruth Markus, John William Sills Simpson
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (UK) Trust
327543
Trustee
Ralph Goldman, Yvonne Aghassipour
Backing Britain’s Youth 
Trustee
12/11/1996-19/06/2001
The Barnett and Sylvia Shine No 1 Charitable Trust
270025
Trustee
Sybil Shine
The Barnett and Sylvia Shine No 2 Charitable Trust
281821
Trustee
Barbara Grahame, Rodney Grahame
The Barnett Shine Foundation
218365
Trustee
The Bedford Square Charitable Trust
264631
Trustee
Ben Gurion University Foundation
276203
Trustee
Harold Paisner, Eric Charles, David Wernick, Jonathan Prevezer, Conrad Sandler, Lord Weidenfeld of Chelsea, Raymond Pollock, Sidney Corob, Miriam Hyams, Norman Hyams, Hyman Kreitman, Spencer Lawson
The Bluston Charitable Settlement 
256691
Trustee
Daniel Dover
Brighton and Hove Jewish Home 
219267
Trustee
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British Friends of Edith Wolfson Hospital
281538
Trustee
Denise Cohen
British Friends of Meir Medical Centre
1115922
Trustee
17/11/2006-
Paul Allan Beer, Russell Lawrence, Dov Kol, Paul Whitebread, Charlotte Kohler, Fisher Secretaries Limited
British Friends of Reuth
1126124
Trustee
10/06/2008-
Beverley de Vries, Neil Michael Ferber, Russell Ivor Kett, Ann Sophie Rau Dawes, Arnold de Vries, Jonathan Ronald Kropman
The British Friends of the Council for a Beautiful Israel Charitable Trust
266408
Trustee
Barry Townsley, Miriam Martin
British Friends of the Harav Lord Jakobovits Toah Institute of Contemporary Issues
1100127
Trustee
Michael Neuberger, Zipora Leventhal
The British Institute of International and Comparative Law
Trustee
Sir Franklin Berman KCMG QC, Philippe Sands QC, Michael Hutchins, Alan Vaughan Lowe QC, John Merrett, The Rt Hon Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Stephen Weatherill, Alexander Layton, The Rt Hon Lord Justice Rix, Christine Chinkin, Adam Johnson, Ian Hobbs, Susan Bright, Nigel Paul Lomas, Sir William Blair, Dame Juliet Wheldon
The British Tay-Sachs Foundation
249221
Trustee
The Cissie Rosefield Charitable Trust
293177
Trustee
Stephen Michael Rosefield, John Stuart Ian Rosefield
Colwinston Charitable Trust
1049189
Trustee
Mathew Caradoc Thomas Prichard, Martin Patrick Tinney
The Connaught Charitable Trust
1075936
Trustee
Curwen-Lowy Biological Studies Fund
232666-19
Trustee
Parent Company: The Weizmann Institute Foundation
The David Hyman Fellowship
278877-2
Trustee
Parent Company:The Yarnton Trust
The Denis Cohen Charitable Trust
276439
Trustee
Sara Cohen, Denise Cohen
Devonshire Street Charitable Foundation
1123295
Trustee
07/03/2008
Eric Charles, Nigel Gee, Samuel Peltz
Dr Esther Hellinger Memorial Scholarship and J Stanley Weyman Memorial Scholarship
232666-6
Trustee
Parent Company: The Weizmann Institute Foundation
The Edith and Ferdinand Porjes Charitable Trust
274012
Trustee
Howard Terence Stanton, Anthony Solomon Rosenfelder
Elaine Bond Career Development Chair
232666-18
Trustee
Parent Company: The Weizmann Institute Foundation
The Elizabeth Wolfson Peltz Trust
1070064
Trustee
The Eric Rayman Charitable Trust
279744
Trustee
European Jewish Publication Society
1043107
Trustee
15/12/1994-
Antony Lerman, Martyn Goff, Russell Paul Tenzer, Israel Chaim Weinsztok, Fred Simon Worms, Peter Lawrence Levy, Sidney Corob, Rabbi Dr Sidney Brichto
The Frank Green Fellowship
278877-3
Trustee
Parent Company:The Yarnton Trust
The Fred and Della Worms Charitable Trust
200036
Trustee
Arthur David Harverd, Della Worms, Fred Worms
The Friends of the Israel Aged
278505
Trustee
The Goldser Cope-Thompson Charitable Trust
279587
Trustee
D H Cpe-Thompson, M L Cope-Thompson, Emma Lucy Spitz, Julia Debra Harris
Harvey Rosenblatt Charitable Trust 
1084907
Trustee
Peter Sheldon, Harvey Rosenblatt, Linda Rosenblatt, Daniel Dover
Heart Cells Foundation
1101727
Trustee
The Hon Sir Bernard Rix, Anthony Mathur, Jenifer Rosenberg, Myra Waiman, Adrian Magnus, Stephen Sampson, Martin Rothman, Stephen James
Holocaust Educational Trust
1092892
Trustee
Alberta Strage, Robert Stephen Rubin, Sir Ivan Lawrence QC, Paul Phillips, Ben Helfgott, Helen Hyde, Richard Harrington, David Gryn, Jon Mendelsohn, Kitty Hart-Hoxon, Kirsty Jean McNeill, Paul Phillip Berlyn, Edward James Lewin, Michael Karp, Olivier Blechnew
Gift from the Dorset Foundation
232666-8
Trustee
Parent Company:The Weizmann Institute Foundation
Hadassah Medical Relief Association U.K. 
1040848
Trustee
Alberta Strage, Juliet Dawood, Allan Hoffbrand, Lord Leslie Turnberg, Michael Baum, Peter Sheldon, Guilda Shamash, Sir Ian Gainsford, Lisa Tchenquiz-Imerman, Stuart Stanton, David Waterman
The Hallam Trust
288676
Trustee
The Hamilton Trust
1004205
Trustee
Kenneth Brooks, Michael O’Regan, James McMillan
Harry Kweller and Kathleen Kweller Chair of Condensed Matter Physics
232666-23
Trustee
Parent Company: The Weizmann Institute Foundation
Hilda and Cecil Lewis Professorial Chair in Molecular Genetics
232666-10
Trustee
Parent Company: The Weizmann Institute Foundation
The Israel-Diaspora Trust
286131
Trustee
Michael Heller, Geoffrey Goldkorn, George Pinto, Frederic Haller, Jonathan Goldberg, The Lord Weidenfield
Jack and Simon Djanogly Scholarships and Djanogly Chair in Computer Science
232666-12
Trustee
Parent Company:The Weizmann Institute Foundation
The Jacob and Shoshana Schreiber Fellowship
278877-1
Trustee
Parent Company:The Yarnton Trust
Janet Wolfson De Botton Charitable Trust
1054068
Trustee
The Hon Janet Frances Wolfson de Botton, The Hon Laura Helen Wolfson Townsley
The Jewish Educational Development Trust 
313443
Trustee
John and Isabel Ritblat Educational Trust
232666-20
Parent company:The Weizmann Institute Foundation
The Joseph Lewis Charitable Foundation
236264
Trustee
The Kestens Charitable Trust
277637
Trustee
The Kesztenbaum Family Charitable Trust
273126
Trustee
Anna Rachel Fleischmann, Michael Arthur Kesztenbaum
Kitty Waas Dekker Simon Wass and Rosette Dekker Scholarship Fund
232666-22
Trustee
Parent Company: The Weizmann Institute Foundation
The Latchman Family Charitable Trust
328397
Trustee
Ella Latchman, David Seymour Latchman
The Lily and Marcus Sieff Charitable Trust
257824
Trustee
Julian Simon Challis, Daniela Sieff
Mentor Foundation UK
1112339
Trustee
Sir David Sieff, The Lord Mancroft, Sir Jack Stewart Clark, Sim Scavazza, Helen Watson, Louise O’Connor
The Mentor Foundation (UK) for the Prevention of Substance Abuse
1072619
Trustee
The M O G Charitable Trust 
297678
Trustee
Adele Patricia Goldstein, Michael Orde Goldstein
Marcuard Oprhans’ Trust
10868981
Trustee
12/06/2000-09/04/2003
Charles Poncet, Hans Joerg Rudloff, Anthony Solomon Rosenfelder, Sarah Louise Chiappini, Jordan Company Secretaries Limited
Marcus Sieff Fund for Scientific Co-operation between United Kingdom Scientists and the Weizmann Institute of Science
232666-4
Trustee
Parent Company: The Weizmann Institute Foundation
Martin and Dianne Mendoza Scholarship
232666-14
Trustee
Parent Company: The Weizmann Institute Foundation
The Maurice and Vivienne Wohl Philanthropic Foundation
 
Trustee
David Latchman, Ian Gainsford, Daniel Dover
 The Maurice Wohl Charitable Foundation
Trustee
Ella Latchman, David Latchman, Sir Ian Gainsford, Daniel Dover
The Maurice Wohl Charitable Trust
244518
Trustee
Maxwell Ellis Professorship
232666-3
Trustee
Parent Company: The Weizmann Institute Foundation
Michael Crawford Childrens Charity 
104221
Trustee
Alan Clark, Michael Crawford, Kenneth Peter Dias
Morris Leigh Foundation
280695
Trustee
Lord Howard Darryl Leigh
Norman Sosnow Postdoctoral Fellowship
232666-15
Trustee
Parent Company: The Weizmann Institute Foundation
Ovarian Cancer Action
1109743
Trustee
Mr Harris, Mrs Kaye, Lord Leslie Arnold Turnberg
Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
309720
Trustee
Alan Jones, David Lewis, Daniel Peltz, Richard Greenbury, Charles Sebag-Montefiore, Baruch Samuel Blumberg, George Richard Pinto, Hugh Godfrey Maturin Williamson, Lord George Weidenfeld, Martin Goodman, Roger Wingate, Martin Blackman, John Middiman, Sir Bernard Rix, David Guy Kenneth Taylor, HRH Prince El Hassan Bin Talal, Michael Eric Garston, Paul Joyce, Lord Simon Marks, Shlomo Ben-Ami, Stanley Fink, Sir Ivor Crewe, Daniel Patterson, David Joseph QC, Stuart Roden, David Ariel, Marc Polonsky
The Paisner Charitable Trust
275087
Trustee
Harold Paisner
The Peltz Trust
1002302
Trustee
2012
Daniel Peltz, The Hon Elizabeth Peltz
The Peter Cruddas Foundation
1117323
Trustee
Peter Andrew Cruddas, Lord David Ivor Young
Philip Harris and Gerald Ronson Career Development Chair
232666-9
Trustee
Parent Company: The Weizmann Institute Foundation
The Phillips and Rubens Charitable Trust
260378
Trustee
Michael Phillips, Ruth Phillips, Paul Phillips, Gary Phillips, Carolyn Mishon
Phillips Family Charitable Trust
Trustee
td>2014
Ruth Phillips, Paul Phillips, Gary Phillips, Michael Phillips
Pierre and Maniusia Gildesgame Charitable Trust
232472
Trustee
The Potel Charitable Trust
326513
Gillian Potel, Solomon Stanton Potel, Debra Potel
Raymond Burton Fund for Genome Research
232666-5
Trustee
Parent Company: The Weizmann Institute Foundation
Raymond Burton Prize
232666-11
Trustee
Parent Company: The Weizmann Institute Foundation
Remembering for the Future 2000
1067606
Trustee
Cicely Hopper, Earl Issey Hooper
Remembering for the Future Online
1067606
Trustee
Edward Kessler, Elisabeth Jenny Jeanne Maxwell, Wisteriea Registrars Ltd
Rixi Marcus Scholarships in Memory of Eugenia Ignacy and Herbert Alfred Heller
232666-13
Trustee
Parent Company: The Weizmann Institute Foundation
The Robert and Rene Lewin Charitable Trust 
802163
Trustee
Julian Anthony Maurica Arendt, Bronia Steiner
Royal Free Cancerkin Breast Cancer Trust
1085517
Trustee
Sally Malin, Santilal Parag Parbhoo, Judith Sanitt, Suzanne Freeda, Geoffrey Lloyd, Judith Fay Mishon, John Carrier, Rebecca Wynberg, Tim Davidson
Rueff – Wormser Scholarship Fund
232666-1
Trustee
Parent Company: The Weizmann Institute Foundation
The Ruth and Jack Lunzer Charitable Trust
276201
Trustee
Jack Lunzer
Samuel Sebba Professorial Chair
232666-16
Trustee
Parent Company: The Weizmann Institute Foundation
The Schmidt-Bodner Charitable Trust
283014
Trustee
Daniel Dover
Shaare Zedek (UK)
Trustee
Margaret Gioia Rothem, Anthony Rosenfelder
The Sieratzki Charitable Trust
1126815
Trustee
Jechil Salomon Sieratzki, Barbara Sieratzki
Simon Weinstock Professorial Chair Endowment
232666-7
Trustee
Parent Company: The Weizmann Institute Foundation
Sir David Sieff PHD Scholarship in Brain Research
232666-17
Trustee
Parent Company: The Weizmann Institute Foundation
The Sir Ernst and Lady Anne Chain Research Programme
232666-21
Trustee
Parent Company: The Weizmann Institute Foundation
The Sir Sigmund Sternberg Charitable Foundation
257950
Trustee
Sigmund Sternberg, Michael Sternberg, Martin Arthur Malcolm Slowe, Marcus Christopher Rossie Braybrooke, Noam Tamir
The Stella and Alexander Margulies Charitable Trust
220441
Trustee
Sir Stuart Anthony Lipton, Alexander Michael Sorkin, Marcus Jonathan Margulies, Leslie David Michaels
Stepney Jewish (B’nai B’rith) Clubs and Settlement
802559-5
Trustee
13/12/1995-23/06/2004
Antony Ian Grossman, Arnold Wagner Obe, Jonathan David Zenios, Steven David Lewis, Andrew Hope, Baroness Julie Babette Sarah Newuberger, Dame Gail Ronson, Suzanne Lea Joels, Lady Gilda Levy, Lord David Ivor Young of Graffham, Lord Howard Darryl Leigh, Alan Goldberg, Alan Irving Goldman, Ashley Mitchell, Barnett Anthony Saffron, Brian Ivan Leaver, Claude James Weil, Colin Ivor Lehmann, Cyril Julius, David Alan Pears, David John Lewis, David Robert Green, Edward Langton, Edward Langton, Edward Michael Lee, Eli Allen Shahmoon, Frank Cass, Gary Louis Stern, James Elliot Diner, Jeffrey Michael Greenwood, Jonathan Simon Goldstein, Lloyd Marshall Dorfman, Malcolm Dagul, Malcolm Howard Brummer, Marcel Jonathan Knobil, Michael Goldmeier, Michael John Ingram, Michael Ronald Nathan, Nigel Anthony Raine, Nigel Keith Ross, Paul Brian Marber, Philip Leigh, Richard Bruce Mintz, Stpehen Anthony Zimmerman, Stephen Maurice Crown, Stuarty Glyn, Stuart Grant Roden, Timothy Montagu Simon, Anita Mellor, Ann Spiro, Anne Marks]], Bettina Lynda Bradfield, Charlotte Green-Lubett, Connie Elizabeth Levy, Doris David, Edna Halle, Hannah Lewis, Joyce Valerie Saffron, Myrtle Franklin, Ruth Elizabeth Hollander, Sheila Lisbeth Brodtman, Sonie Senat, Stella Lucas, Frances Harris, Jeanie Cressida Rosefield, Joan Beryl Freedman, Margaretta Gremson, Phillippa Mintz, Shirley Jacobs, Shirley Jean Lawson, Susan Melanie Grant, Zena de Groot, Lord Michael Levy
The Stuart Young Foundation
 
Trustee
Frank Stansil, Shirley Young, Michael Phillips, Lesley Aaronson, Elspet Rix, David Young
Teale Charitable Trust 
1058734
Trustee
David Teale, Christine Teale
The Tel Mond Charitable Trust
1082457
Trustee
The Trust for the Study of Social Trauma and the Care and Treatment of Survivors
277166
Trustee
Cicely Hopper, Earl Issey Hooper
UK Friends of the Peres Institute for Peace
1062191
Trustee
25/03/1997-?
Omer Moore, Alan Kaye, Stanley Saffer, Lord Greville Ewan Janner, The Lord Michael Levy
The Weizmann Institute Foundation
 
 Vice-chairman 
Lord David Alliance, Sir John Ritblat, Robert Abraham Perlman, Jonathan Alexander Metliss, Daniel Gesetner, Dame Vivien Duffield, Parry Mitchell, Arabella Elizabeth Duffield, Jeremy Alan Smouha, Jonathan Ronald Kropman, Robert Ivor Ohrenstein, Myra Waiman, Daniel S Shapiro, Lord Leslie Arnold Turnberg, Benny Chain, Maxwell Nisner, Lady Hannah Lowy Mitchell, Michael Sandler
Weizmann Institute Foundation Pooled Fund (PE)
232666-2
Trustee
Parent Company:The Weizmann Institute Foundation
The Wolfson Family Charitable Trust
228382
Trustee”
Sir Ian Gainsford, Sir Bernard Rix, Sir Eric Ash, The Hon Laura Wolfson Townsley, Dame Janet Wolfson de Botton, Lord Turnberg, The Hon Elizabeth Wolfson Peltz, Alexandra Wolfson Halamish
The Wolfson Townsley Charitable Trust
277637
Trustee
Helen Wolfson Townsley, Barry Townsley, The Hon Janet Frances Wolfson de Botton
Woolf Institute
1069589
Trustee
Robert Glatter, David Leibowitz, Edward David Kessler, Julius Lipner, Peter Halban, Lord Hameed of Hamstead, Waqar Ahman, Martin Forward, Lord Richard Douglas Harries of Pentregarth, Lady Marguerite Leah Woolf
The Yarnton Trust
309720-1
Trustee
Parent charity: Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Yoni Jesner Foundation
Trustee
Ari Jesner, David Cohen, Jared Jesner, Jonathan Kestenbaum
The Young Charitable Trust
283841
Trustee
Denis Leonard Arronson, Shirley Young
 Greer Fay Cashman, A flying start for Binyenei Ha'uma The Jerusalem Post, 5 December 2008, Pg. 24., accessed 3 June 2015. The Peltz Trust [Trustees' Annual report for the year ended 5 April 2006], accessed 3 June 2015.
==Affiliations==
Company directorships.
Company name
Dissolved?
Role
Date of Appointment
Date of resignation
Townsley Family Investments Limited 
No
Director
16/06/2005
-
Metcalf Properties Limited 
Yes - 2003
Director
22/08/1996
2003
The British Library Trust 
No
Director
09/02/2012
-
Romanoff Fund for Russia (UK)
No
Director
03/05/1994
23/10/1996
Nameco (No.412) Limited
No
Director
24/02/2009
-
Bluston Securities Limited
No
Director and Secretary
17/06/1992
-
Barnet City Academy
No
Director
13/10/2004
15/10/2008
Samford University (USA) Trust Limited 
Yes
Secretary director
31/12/1991
N/A
Kitecross Limited
Yes – 07/09/1999
Director
02/10/1998
07/09/1999
Eagle Management Company Limited
No
Secretary
17/09/2003
14/02/2013
Consumer Trustees Limited
No
 Director
08/04/1998
18/06/2002
Sendgrove Limited
Yes – 27/11/2001
Director and Secretary
30/06/1993
27/11/2001
Hadassah Medical Relief Association UK
No
 Director
29/11/1995
-
Trident Investment Company
No
 Director 
28/10/1992
29/01/1998
Hooke Park Educational Trust
No
 Director
31/03/1992
07/03/1994
Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
No
 Director and Secretary
07/06/1991
-
PCO 217 Limited
Yes – 13/07/2010
Director 
05/08/1999
13/07/2010
Shaare Zedek UK
No
 Director
14/12/2010
-
Oxford Synagogue & Jewish CentreLimited
No
Director 
05/05/1992
30/04/2004
Family Trustee Company Limited
Yes – 22/01/2013
Director
28/03/1991
22/01/2013
Ebury Investments Limited
No
Director 
24/11/1998
-
Stamag Trustee Company Limited
No
 Director
12/03/1998
Kinsdale Investments Limited
Yes
Director and secretary
22/06/1992
74 Portland Place Limited
Yes – 26/04/2011
Director 
13/09/1992
26/04/2011 
Petermore Limited
Yes
Director 
21/08/1991
J.&B.Ashley Limited
No
Director
13/09/2011
- 
Royal Free Cancerkin Breast Cancer Trust
No
Director
29/12/2000
-
European Jewish Publication Society
No
Director
15/12/1994
- 
Paimag Trustee Company Limited
Yes – 21/08/2001
Director
20/03/1998
21/08/2001
Gelmag Trustee Company Limited
No
Director
12/03/1998
-
Starmain Limited
Yes – 22/10/1996
Director
10/04/1991
22/10/1996
Inlandglide Limited
Yes – 10/02/1998
Director
31/03/1991
10/02/1998
Inter-Action Social Enterprise Trust Limited
No
Director
21/05/1992
07/06/1996
Jewish Literary Trust Limited
No
Director
01/09/1991
02/08/1994
Ebury Investments Limited
No
Secretary
24/11/1998
29/01/1999
Lemag Trustee Company Limited 
No
Director
12/03/1998
-
Backing Jewish Youth
Yes – 22/10/2002
Director
14/08/1995
22/10/2002
Bluston Securities (Bordon) Limited
No
Secretary
20/04/2009
Lhotse LLP
No
Director
27/09/2012
-
Holocaust Educational Trust
No
Director
27/04/2001
-
PCO 206 Limited
No
Director
09/10/1998
-
Studio Arts Centers International U.K
Yes – 15/02/2000
Director
30/01/1993
15/02/2000
Trident Investment Holding Company Limited
Yes – 22/12/1998
Director
28/10/1998
22/12/1998
New Israel Fund
No
Director
01/09/2008
20/11/2009
Jerusalem Foundation Trustees Limited 
No
Director and Secretary
20/03/2007
-
74 Portland Place Residents Limited
Yes – 07/02/2006
Director
30/03/1993
07/02/2006
The Leadership Trust (Trading) Limited
Yes – 4/09/2012
Director
12/08/1997
28/06/1998
Cinderhall Properties Limited
Yes – 20/08/2008
 Director
16/10/2001
20/10/2001
Herts Industrial Construction Limited
Yes – 27/08/2008
Secretary
17/9/2003
27/08/2008
Oakminster Properties Limited
Yes – 25/12/2009
 Director
26/02/1991
25/12/2009
Jerusalem Trustees Limited
Yes – 05/01/2006
 Director 
21/10/2008
05/01/2006
Majestic Properties (London) Limited
No
 Director
13/09/2011
-
The Weizmann Institute Foundation
No
 Director
15/02/1980
-
Tal Nominees Limited
Yes – 02/07/2002
Director 
26/01/2000
02/07/2002
Aimward Limited
No
 Director
08/09/1998
23/11/2001
UK Friends of the Peres Institute for Peace
No
Director and Secretary
25/03/1997
31/03/2011
Tower Bridge Fiduciary Limited
No
Director
13/08/2014
-
Teresa Limited
Yes – 07/09/1999
Director 
12/01/1998
07/09/1999
Woolf Institute 
No
Director
08/03/2007
- 
W F Nominees Limited
Yes – 12/06/2007
Director
08/09/1999
12/06/2007
Fortplot Limited
Yes – 28/09/2004
Secretary
17/09/2003
28/09/2004
PCO 160 Limited
Yes – 03/08/2004
Director
08/11/1999
02/08/2004
BNAI Brith Foundation Limited
Yes – 01/02/2011
Director
31/12/1990
16/01/1996
Fairholme Estates (Holdings) Limited
No
Director
18/02/1991
-
Trust Construction Company Limited
No
Secretary
17/09/2003
-
Minderbay Limited
Yes – 20/06/2000
Director
26/02/1991
20/06/2000
J.B. Rubens Charity Trustees Limited
Yes – 12/09/2006
Director
07/03/1993
12/09/2006
Bluston Securities (Bordon) Limited
No
Director
20/04/2009
-
Paco Nominees Limited 
Yes – 01/03/2011
Director
22/07/1999
01/03/2011
Pelmon Limited
Yes – 13/10/2009
Director
17/07/2008
13/10/2009
Barker Group Limited
No
Secretary
17/09/2003
-
Holne Chase Trustee Company Limited
No
Director
07/03/1993
-
Institute for Strategic Dialogue
No
Director
30/04/2008
18/05/2010
Weizmann Trading Company Limited
No
Director
16/12/2009
-
The Covenant & Conversation Trust
No
Director
04/06/2013
-
Copac Nominees Limited
Yes – 01/03/2011
Director
22/07/1999
01/03/2011
Industrial Developments (Herts) Limited
No
Director
17/09/2003
-
Jewish Care Community Foundation
No
Director
21/06/1995
23/06/2004
Wohl Nominees Limited
No
Director
13/12/2007
-
Piltwon Services Limited
Yes – 22/03/2011
Director
06/12/2007
22/03/2011
Tikva Corp
No
Vice president/trustee
Redbourne Avenue LLP
No
LLP designated member
27/05/2014
-
 Open Corporates Martin Paisner, accessed 3 June 2015. Endole Martin David Paisner, accessed 4 June 2015.
===Other roles===
*Honorary council member, Royal Court Theatre, London. Peter Cruddas Foundation Paisner Biography, accessed 3 June 2015.
*Vice president, Jewish Care.
*Honorary Member of the council, NSPCC .
*Member of the board, The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc.
*Chairman, Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute – a think tank partnership between the US based Jewish Distribution Committee Inc and the Israeli Government dealing primarily with social welfare, health and educational issues.
==Notes==
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