 He is a former chairman of Policy Exchange who was succeeded by David Frum in 2014.He was made a member of the House of Lords in August 2013, sitting as a Conservative.Finkelstein is Jewish; his mother, Mirjam Finkelstein, was a Holocaust survivor of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, while his father Ludwik Finkelstein OBE was born in Lviv (then in Poland but now in Ukraine), and became Professor of Measurement and Instrumentation at City University London.