Margarita Louis-Dreyfus

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Margarita Louis-Dreyfus (born on 18th June 1962 as Margarita Olegovna Bogdanova in Leningrad ) is a Swiss entrepreneur of Russian origin. She heads the Louis Dreyfus Group and is the majority shareholder of the Olympique Marseille football club . She is the widow of the entrepreneur Robert Louis-Dreyfus .

biography

Margarita Louis-Dreyfus grew up in modest circumstances. At the age of seven, she lost both parents in a train accident. She then grew up with her grandfather, an electrical engineer. She studied law in Moscow and economics in Leningrad.

At the age of 27, she married a Swiss citizen and settled in Switzerland, where she initially worked in an import-export company. The marriage ended in divorce after a year and a half. In 1989 she met Robert Louis-Dreyfus on a plane from Zurich to London . The two married in 1992 and had three children together (Éric, born 1992, and the two twins Maurice and Kirill, born 1998).

After the death of her husband in 2009, Margarita Louis-Dreyfus became the heiress of the Louis Dreyfus Group and majority shareholder of the football club Olympique de Marseille . After a battle at the top of the family company, she became chairman of the board of directors in 2011 .

She sold the Olympique de Marseille soccer club to the American entrepreneur Frank McCourt on October 17, 2016.

In mid-June 2017 she was elected to the Board of Directors of the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce (Am-Cham). This body is considered to be the hub of the Swiss economy.

According to the Forbes list , her net worth was approximately $ 7.1 billion in 2015. It ranks second in Switzerland and 160th worldwide.

Louis-Dreyfus has been in a relationship with the former president of the Swiss National Bank and today's BlackRock manager Philipp Hildebrand since 2013 ; in March 2016 she became the mother of twins. She lives in Davos and Zollikon .

literature

  • Elsa Conesa: Margarita Louis-Dreyfus: enquête sur la fortune la plus secrète de France. Grasset, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-246-79740-1 .
  • Margarita Louis-Dreyfus , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 03/2014 of January 14, 2014, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elsa Conesa, p. 15: "date qui figure sur ses papiers d'identité"
  2. ↑ Elsa Conesa, p. 10
  3. ^ L'incroyable destin de Margarita Louis-Dreyfus - Le Point . Archived from the original on April 19, 2013. Retrieved December 2, 2015.
  4. ^ NZZ on Sunday of September 2, 2012
  5. ↑ Swiss Amcham and balance of June 30, 2017
  6. ^ Margarita Louis-Dreyfus on the Forbes list
  7. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/21/swiss-billionaire-margarita-louis-dreyfus-birth-twins-53
personal data
SURNAME Louis-Dreyfus, Margarita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bogdanova, Margarita Olegovna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss entrepreneur and billionaire of Russian origin
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad