Clive Lawton is a British Jewish educator, broadcaster and writer. He is currently the CEO of the Commonwealth Jewish Council, scholar-in-residence at JW3, London’s flagship Jewish Community Center, a magistrate on the Bristol Bench, and faculty for the European Centre for Leadership Training and the London School of Jewish Studies. He has been named by The Algemeiner as one of the top 100 people positively influencing Jewish life worldwide.

Until December 2018, Clive was Senior Consultant to Limmud, the international Jewish adult education movement, of which he was co-founder in 1980 and Director from 1999-2006. Clive was the lead columnist for London’s Jewish News for 10 years and has published more than 15 books. He was honored by the Queen with an OBE, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, in 2016 and in 2017, was elected President of the Shap Working Party on World Religious Education. Clive has been Baal Mussaf and preacher for the High Holidays at the Oxford Jewish Congregation for 37 years and is a regular educator for March of the Living UK.

Clive holds a BA in English and a Postgraduate Certificate of Education from York University, an MA in Theatre and Film Studies, an MEd in Religious Studies and an MSc in Management Science. He is a proud father to two daughters and two grandchildren.