13 Facts About Serge Lourie

Alexander Serge Lourie CF was Leader of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, and was a local government councillor there from 1982 to 2010.

Serge Lourie was Chairman of the United Kingdom Housing Trust, Kingston Hospital NHS Trust and Sanctuary Housing Association.

Serge Lourie had been the General Secretary of Help the Aged and a board member of the London Pensions Fund Authority and the Notting Hill Housing Trust.

Serge Lourie was of Russian extraction and was the great-grandson of Lev Philippovitch Wolkenstein.

Serge Lourie was educated at St Paul's School, London and Worcester College, Oxford, graduating from the University of Oxford with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

Serge Lourie was a Labour Party member of Westminster City Council and the Greater London Council member for Hornchurch where he was chair of scrutiny and vice-chair of finance.

Serge Lourie spent fourteen years as Leader, and served as Deputy Leader and Leader of the Opposition.

Serge Lourie was a board member of the London Tourist Board where he deputised for the chairman, Sir John Egan.

Serge Lourie chaired the Independent Panel on members' remuneration for the Association of Police Authorities and was a member of the Metropolitan Police Committee.

Serge Lourie was a board member of Richmond Charities and of Kew Community Trust as well as chairing Poems in the Waiting Room, a British charity providing poetry cards to doctors' waiting rooms in England and Wales.

Serge Lourie was a patron of Cultural Co-operation, a charity that ran world music festivals.

Serge Lourie lived in Kew, Greater London and was married with two children.

Serge Lourie was a regular runner, who completed five marathons, and ran frequently in the Richmond Park parkrun.