Trudy Gold
In Conversation with Sharan Tabari on “A Window into the Iranian Perspective"

Trudy Gold was the CEO of the London Jewish Cultural Centre and a founding member of the British delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). Throughout her career she taught modern Jewish history at schools, universities, and to adult groups and ran seminars on Holocaust education in the UK, Eastern Europe, and China. She also led Jewish educational tours all over the world. Trudy was the educational director of the student resources “Understanding the Holocaust” and “Holocaust Explained” and the author of The Timechart History of Jewish Civilization.

Sharan Tabari was born in Iran and completed her education in the United Kingdom. Between 1979 and 1986, she lectured in political science at various Iranian universities. She left Iran in 1986, and became a lecturer at Birkbeck College and a radio journalist and chief correspondent at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Persian Service. Sharan became a senior advisor and fellow at the Legatum lnstitute on their programme “the future of Iran” She is also a writer and producer for Iran Farda Television and head of the executive committee of an Iranian political group. She was a founding member, and on the editorial board of the woman’s magazine, “The Other Half,” Iran (1980) and United Kingdom(1987-1997).