Marc Polonsky is a retired partner of counsel with an international law firm, where his practice focused on investment in the former Soviet Union, particularly in the natural resources and infrastructure sectors. He is Managing Trustee of The Polonsky Foundation, a UK-registered grant-making charity that supports cultural heritage, humanities education and research and the arts. He has a B.A. in Modern Languages (Russian and French) from the University of Oxford, an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Imperial College, London, and is a solicitor qualified in England and Wales.