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)
Sergei Ostrovsky is a partner in the corporate department in London and is co-head of Ashurst’s Russia and CIS group. Trained as a banking and corporate lawyer in the City of London in the 1990s, Sergei is a qualified solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales.

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.

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 Makarova
Trustee since October 2004. Natalia is a foreign trade economist and consultant on public and corporate affairs. For several years she has been closely involved in promoting Russian culture in London through organising high-profile events as a director of the cultural charity Academia Rossica.

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.