Distinguished friends
Maria Adebowale-Schwarte
Sukhpal Singh Ahluwalia
Rajesh Agrawal
Riz Ahmed
Sughra Ahmed
Keith Ajegbo
George Alagiah
Claire Alexander
Kitty Arie
Peter Atkins
Julian Baggini
Zelda Baveystock
Haidee Bell
Richard Beswick
Dinesh Bhugra
Karan Bilimoria
Geoffrey Bindman
Karen Blackett
Nicholas Blake
Ian Blatchford
David Blunkett
Hina Bokhari
Mihir Bose
Alain de Botton
John Bowers
Stephen Briganti
Des Browne
Rickie Burman
Mukti Jain Campion
Paul Canoville
Gus Casely-Hayford
Saimo Chahal
Reeta Chakrabarti
Shami Chakrabarti
Stephen Claypole
Robin Cohen
Linda Colley
David Crystal
Angélica Dass
Prakash Daswani
Sandie Dawe
Navnit Dholakia
Sherry Dobbin
Ibrahim Dogus
Lloyd Dorfman
Alf Dubs
John Dyson
Damien Egan
Graeme Farrow
Shreela Flather
Daniel Franklin
Edie Friedman
Manjit Singh Gill
Teresa Graham
Ann Grant
Susie Harries
Naomie Harris
James Hathaway
David Hencke
Sophie Herxheimer
Afua Hirsch
Michael Howard
Clive Jacobs
Kevin Jennings
Adrian Johns
Shobu Kapoor
Jackie Kay
Ayub Khan-Din
Francesca Klug
Tony Kushner
Kwasi Kwarteng
Kwame Kwei-Armah
David Kynaston
Brian Lambkin
Mark Lewisohn
Joanna Lumley
Michael Mansfield
Sue McAlpine
Neil Mendoza
Nick Merriman
David Miles
Abigail Morris
Hugh Muir
Tessa Murdoch
Sandy Nairne
Bushra Nasir
Susheila Nasta
Eithne Nightingale
John O’Farrell
Kenneth Olisa
Kunle Olulode
David Olusoga
Julia Onslow-Cole
John Orna-Ornstein
Herman Ouseley
Sameer Pabari
Ruth Padel
Panikos Panayi
Bhikhu Parekh
Nikesh Patel
David Pearl
Caryl Phillips
Mike Phillips
Trevor Phillips
Sunand Prasad
Kavita Puri
Trevor Robinson
Aubrey Rose
Michael Rosen
Cathy Ross
Salman Rushdie
Jill Rutter
Philippe Sands
Sathnam Sanghera
Konrad Schiemann
Richard Scott
Stephen Sedley
Maggie Semple
Saira Shah
Babita Sharma
Nikesh Shukla
Jon Snow
Sonia Solicari
Robert Soning
David Spence
Danny Sriskandarajah
Stelio Stefanou
Dick Taverne
Jane Thompson
Robert Tombs
Rumi Verjee
Patrick Vernon
Edmund de Waal
Iqbal Wahhab
Yasmin Waljee
Jake Wallis Simons
David Warren
Iain Watson
Henning Wehn
Nat Wei
Janet Whitaker
Gary Younge
Benjamin Zephaniah
The plans for the Migration Museum are timely and inspiring. The project shares
with the Jewish Museum a concern to promote understanding that British history is a story of migration and that immigrants have made an immense contribution to British society – to show the personal stories behind the statistics. I look forward to working in partnership with this exciting project, which will make an important contribution to education, discussion and debate.
Rickie Burman
As Director of the Jewish Museum London from 1995 to 2012, Rickie Burman was responsible for the Museum’s redevelopment project, which established new galleries highlighting the experience of Jewish immigration and settlement in the UK, and for numerous exhibitions on this theme. These have included ‘Closing the Door? Immigration to Britain 1905–2005’, marking the centenary of the 1905 Aliens Act, ‘The Last Goodbye – The Rescue of Children from Nazi Europe’ (available as a travelling display) and ‘World City: Refugee Stories’. She is a former trustee of the London Museums Libraries & Archives Council, a Senior Partner in the National Archives’ ‘Moving Here’ project on migration to England and the past President of the Association of European Jewish Museums. She has an MPhil in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University and was also previously Curator of the London Museum of Jewish Life and project coordinator of the project to establish the Manchester Jewish Museum. In 2012 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in recognition of her ‘influential Directorship of the Jewish Museum London and valuable contribution to the cultural life of the UK’.