Lisbet Rausing

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Lisbet Rausing (* 1960 in Sweden ) is a Swedish historian of science and a patron .

Life

Lisbet Rausing is a daughter of Hans Rausing and granddaughter of the Tetra Pak founder Ruben Rausing . Her siblings are Hans Kristian and Sigrid Rausing .

Rausing grew up in Lund and studied at the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard , where she taught for eight years. She currently works as a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the History of Science at Imperial College .

In 1998 she founded the Danish agricultural company Ingleby Farms & Forests Ltd. based in Køge , which owns more than 100,000 hectares in nine countries and farms with almost 2,500 employees ( full-time equivalent ) (as of 2016/17). Rausing remains one Supervisory Board member ( english Non-Executive Director , Non-Executive Director ' ) to its Board of Directors (as of 2019).

2001 Rausing founded the charitable Arcadia Fund , based in London , who so far more than 181 million US dollars awarded to the preservation of endangered natural and cultural values (as of 2013). The Arcadia Berlin Stiftung non-profit GmbH , established in Berlin in 2008 , acquired the historic Robert Koch Forum building complex from the State of Berlin in 2009 to open a private university there. However, the plans came to nothing, so that the property was bought back by the State of Berlin in 2016 at an almost unchanged price. The Berlin sister foundation of the British Arcadia Fund was liquidated at the end of 2017.

Rausing received honorary doctorates from Uppsala University , Imperial College, and SOAS ; she is a member of the Linnean Society , the Royal Historical Society and the British Academy . She is a member of the board of the nature conservation organization Fauna & Flora International (FFI).

Her first marriage to the American art historian Joseph Koerner had children Benjamin and Siggy. In 2002 she married the American historian and history professor Peter Baldwin , who is a co-founder of the Arcadia Fund.

She lives in Holland Park . She owns an estate of 4,000 hectares in Fort William , Scotland . In the southern Swedish fishing village of Torekov , she spends part of the summer in the family estate there.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Honorary degrees awarded to Browne, Venter and Rausing at Imperial's Commemoration Day. Imperial College London, October 24, 2007, accessed August 31, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Annual Report 2016/17. (pdf, 10.9 MB) Ingleby Farms & Forests Ltd., February 13, 2018, pp. 5, 96–97 , accessed on April 22, 2019 (English).
  3. ↑ About Arcadia. In: arcadiafund.org.uk. Archived from the original on October 23, 2013 ; accessed on August 31, 2019 (English).
  4. ^ Andrew Albanese: For Libraries at UCLA and Yale, $ 5 Million Arcadia Fund Gifts Go Beyond Money. February 25, 2009, archived from the original on November 7, 2012 ; accessed on August 31, 2019 (English).
  5. ↑ Jan Thomsen: Robert Koch Forum: New headquarters for Berlin's departure to become the digital capital of Europe. In: Berliner Zeitung . June 13, 2016, accessed April 22, 2019 . Amory Burchard: New headquarters for the Hertie School in Berlin: Government university at a historic site. In: Der Tagesspiegel . December 17, 2018, accessed April 22, 2019 .
  6. ^ Arcadia Berlin Foundation charitable GmbH, District Court Charlottenburg, HRB 115711, liquidation from December 19, 2017.
  7. ↑ Governance. Fauna & Flora International (FFI), archived from the original on July 13, 2010 ; accessed on August 31, 2019 (English).
  8. ^ Marc Brent: Peter Baldwin, professor and philanthropist, is appointed to the Wikimedia Endowment Advisory Board. Wikimedia Foundation , September 9, 2016, accessed April 22, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Andy McSmith: Rausing family values: the dark side of a dynasty. In: The Independent . April 11, 2008, accessed August 31, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Christel Persson: Fiskeläget som blev ett skånskt lyxghetto. In: Expressen . August 28, 2012, accessed August 31, 2019 (Swedish).
personal data
SURNAME Rausing, Lisbet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish historian of science
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Sweden