Alexander Serge Lourie CF (22 February 1946 – 10 September 2024[1]) was a Leader of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames,[2] where he was a local government councillor from 1982 to 2010.
[5] He had also been the General Secretary of Help the Aged[6] and a board member of the London Pensions Fund Authority[7][8] and the Notting Hill Housing Trust.
In 1989 he was awarded a fellowship by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, studying urban renewal and housing in France and the United States.
In 2015, he was appointed Chairman of the Charity Appeal Committee of Kingston Hospital to raise £750,000 to improve the treatment of patients with dementia.
[12] He was a regular runner, who completed five marathons, and ran frequently in the Richmond Park parkrun.