HSH Michail Roerich
His Highness the Duke of Commonwealth was born on September 12, 1991 in Warsaw, Poland, to a family of Greek shipowners and is a statesman with an ideology and skills in finance and technology.
The Duke of Commonwealth primarily has British, Greek, Norwegian and Ukrainian roots and relatives, and on this basis to unite the family established in 2023 the Norway based House of Roerich and became head of what shall be known as a British-Norwegian family with Greek and Ukrainian branches.
His Highness began programing at the age of ten and started his financial career in 2005 in the family owned shipping company Sunlight Maritime as an accounting assistant and worked his way up to financial co-director within a decade.
After the passing of his brother in 2016 and a series of profound events in Ukraine, the United Kingdom and the Greek crisis that led to significant personal sacrifices, His Highness has dedicated his life to public service.
His Highness is the founding father and President of the Union State of British Commonwealth, a sovereign political form of union and alliance of the people of 60 member nations on constructing a self-governing society based on creative ideology.
Over the past 18 years has held various finance related roles in banking, industry and technology. A board member of the Electronic Money Issuer, the Royal Bank of Greece and the British Technology Bank. Chairman of Gofer Wealth plc that has over 184 bn. sterling of assets under management.
The Duke of Commonwealth serves as the Governor of The Commonwealth Crown, is President of Royal Hellas, is council secretary of the Athens Council, is Chairman of the Global Britain Panel as well as is the first Honourable Trustee and Chairman of British Ukraine.
Over 2020 – 2022 His Highness gifted most of own assets (292 bn. sterling) to the public via The Commonwealth Crown, including some to British Ukraine, The African Crown Estate and British Commonwealth.
His Highness founded the Athens Property Exchange, created the Gofer Coin, the parallel currency Golden Drachma and the Depositary Receipts security as well as co-created the Reputation Index. Holds four non-executive directorships, two of which are in public companies. Holds 7 patents.
His Highness is Vice-Chairman of the Alexander Foundation, the founder and Chairman of the Roerich Institute of Technology, a member of Grosvenor Barclay LLP and a significant shareholder of three large multinational commercial groups of companies active across numerous industries.