Andrew Jack (co-chairman and secretary)
Andrew Jack is a journalist with the Financial Times. He was a correspondent and then bureau chief in Moscow for the newspaper in 1998-2004, and is author of the book Inside Putins Russia (Granta/OUP). He was previously based for the newspaper in Paris and London, and has also written The French Exception (Profile Books). A graduate of St Catharines College, Cambridge, he was also the Joseph Hodges Choate Memorial Fellow at Harvard.

Sergei Ostrovsky (co-chairman)
Trustee since 2008 Sergei Ostrovsky is a partner at Ashurst, an international law firm in the City of London where he heads the firm’s Russian & CIS practice. Sergei combines practicing English corporate law with his long-standing interest and background in Russian theatre and culture. Born in Moscow, he studied theatre and published theatre reviews in Russia, before pursuing his graduate legal studies in the United States and London, and eventually qualifying a solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales. In 2006 he co-translated The Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard, which was published in hardback by Inostranka publishers, and produced for the stage by the Russian Youth Theatre (RAMT) in Moscow in 2007.

David Brummell
Trustee since October 2004. David has had a long-standing interest in Russian literature and has translated and lectured on various Russian authors. He has had a distinguished career in the government legal service, where he worked with various departments including the Office of Fair Trading, the Treasury and the Department of Energy. He is a former head of the Treasury Solicitors’ Litigation Division and was latterly Legal Secretary to the Law Officers. He was awarded a CB in the 2005 New Year’s honours list, and is currently working as a legal adviser at the Ministry of Defence. David is a committee member of both the Great-Britain – Russia Society and the Pushkin Club and is Pushkin House’s liaison officer with the latter organization.

Henry Cobbe
Trustee since 2010. After studying Russian at Edinburgh University, Henry worked as a research analyst in the Eastern European team at Schroder Investment Management (1999-2003), and in the Global Emerging Markets team at Thames River Capital LLP (2003-2006). Since 2006, he has been working at Nevsky Capital LLP.

Natasha Chouvaeva
Trustee since July 2006. Natasha is the founder of the publishing and PR company RussianUK.com, best known for London Courier, the first Russian-language newspaper to be produced in the UK. She has been editor since 1994 and continues to maintain the newspaper’s independence while promoting cultural and business links between the UK and Russian-speaking countries. Natasha Chouvaeva also publishes RussianUK, a quarterly magazine which started as an annual directory and has developed into a glossy lifestyle magazine for the British-Russian community.

Simon Franklin
Trustee since July 2004. Simon is Professor of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge. He has written on Russian history and culture of all periods, but his principal research interests are medieval. His major recent publications include: The Emergence of Rus 750-1200 (with Jonathan Shepard; London, 1996), Writing, Society and Culture in Early Rus, c.950-1300 (Cambridge, 2002) and (with Emma Widdis) National Identity in Russian Culture: an Introduction (Cambridge, 2004).

Brook Horowitz
Trustee since July and Secretary since December 2004. Executive Director of The Russia Partnership for Responsible Business Practices, a Moscow-based business association set up by the Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum. Brook is also Managing Director of Business Interchange (UK) Ltd, a strategy and management consultancy focused on the Russian market. Previously spent 11 years as an international executive with the US multinational General Electric (GE).

Irina Kirillova, MBE
University of Cambridge, lecturer in Russian Studies. Fellow Emerita, Newnham College, Cambridge. Trustee of Pushkin House Trust.

Natalia Makarov(a)
Trustee of Pushkin House since October 2004. Natalia is a foreign trade economist and consultant on public and educational affairs. For many years she has been combining her professional interests with close involvement in the promotion of Russian culture in London. As former director of cultural charity Academia Rossica, she has lead many high profile events and collaborated on various arts projects. Now the co-founder and director of Russian Presence UK project she has worked to (jointly) produce the project’s first publication “Русское присутствие в Британии” (“Russian Presence in Britain ”), which offers an insight into the legacy of Russian culture in Britain and the roles of Russians in British society and culture.

Vladimir Nikitin
Trustee since October 2004. Vladimir is a dental surgeon with practices in London’s Wimpole Street and in Moscow. He is a consultant with the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and lectures at King’s College School of Medicine and Dentistry. In his spare time he is an enthusiastic film buff.

Kitty Stidworthy
Founder Member of Forum Houses, on the Pushkin Club Committee since 1954, taught for many years in the Slavonic Department of Cambridge University. Her translations include plays for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the BBC and the Little Angel Theatre, and Andrei Tarkovskii’s books on cinema.