LEVENE, SIR PETER (Keith), BARON LEVENE OF PORTSOKEN
- LEVENE, SIR PETER (Keith), BARON LEVENE OF PORTSOKEN
- LEVENE, SIR PETER (Keith), BARON LEVENE OF
PORTSOKEN (1941– ), British businessman, civil servant, and lord
mayor. Levene was managing director of United Scientific Holdings Ltd.
from 1968 to 1985 before joining the administrative civil service as
chief of defense procurement in the Ministry of Defense from 1985 to
1991. He then became chairman of Canary Wharf Ltd., the vast
redevelopment of London's derelict Docklands area and, in 1998–99, was
lord mayor of London. He was knighted in 1989 and received a life
peerage in 1997.
(William D. Rubinstein (2nd ed.)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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