Henry Grunwald OBE KC is a former President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews (2003-2009). He is currently Vice President of the Jewish Leadership Council. Current communal positions include: President, World Jewish Relief; Chairman, Shechita UK: Vice-Chair, National Holocaust Memorial Day Trust; Trustee, The Holocaust Centre (Beth Shalom); Vice-President, Council of Christians and Jews.
Educated at University College London, where he was made a Fellow in 2006, he was called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn in 1972, specialising in criminal law. He took Silk in 1999 and became a Bencher of Gray’s Inn in 2001. He was awarded the OBE in 2009 for services to the Jewish community and Interfaith Relations.
