The Jewish Leadership Council has appointed five new vice presidents to its leadership team including Labour MP Louise Ellman and Karen Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust.

The other figures appointed to serve a three-year term are David Dangoor, the president of the board of the S&P Sephardi Community, Dame Helen Hyde, the former headteacher of Watford Grammar School for Girls and Dr Moshe Kantor, president of the European Jewish Congress.

Sir Mick Davis, chairman of the JLCs board of trustees said: “It is a credit to the JLC’s standing within Anglo-Jewry that we have been able to attract such an experienced group of vice presidents who are able to impart their knowledge to us and our members. It is important that our community is able seek advice from leaders from all works of Jewish life and we are proud that we have been able to put this group together.”

The five new appointments takes the total number of JLC vice president to 16.