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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Santayana’s famous words underline why the Migration Museum is so important today. It provides a constant reminder that the entire population of the UK originates from immigrants to these shores.

Mark Lewisohn

Mark Lewisohn is a Group Managing Director at UBS. Mark started his career in banking at S.G.Warburg, the merchant bank founded by Siegmund Warburg and his grandfather, Henry Grunfeld, who both arrived in London in the mid-1930s as refugees from Nazi Germany.  His father’s family also experienced life as refugees during the Second World War, when they fled Denmark for the safety of neutral Sweden in October 1943. Mark read History at Christ’s College, Cambridge, and currently serves as Deputy Chair of Council at the University of Cambridge. Mark is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research.