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Alicia Koplowitz


{{Infobox person |name = Alicia Koplowitz |image = |caption = |birth_name = Alicia Koplowitz y Romero de Juseu |birth_date = (1954-09-12) 12 September 1954 (age 62) |birth_place = Madrid, Spain |death_date = |death_place = |nationality = Spanish |other_names = |ethnicity = Spanish mother;
German father |occupation = Businesswoman |religion = Roman Catholic |children = Alberto Cortina Koplowitz, Marquis of Real Socorro
Pedro Cortina Koplowitz
Pelayo Cortina Koplowitz, Count of San Fernando |parents = Ernesto Koplowitz
Esther Romero de Juseu y Armenteros, Marquise of Cardenas |relatives = Esther Koplowitz (sister) |spouse = Alberto Cortina Increase $1.4 billion [[United States dollar|USD] (1969-1990, divorced) |networth = Increase$2.5 billion USD (March 2013) }}


Alicia Koplowitz y Romero de Juseu (born 12 September 1954) is a Spanish business magnate and aristocrat. When her father died, she and her sister inherited Construcciones y Contratas, S.A. (CYCSA), a company founded by her father. She then sold her part of the company to her sister and created one of the largest family offices in Europe called Omega Capital. She ranks as Spain's richest woman in Forbes 2013 World's Richest People list (#589 in the world).

Alicia was born in Madrid (Spain) in 1954, the second and youngest daughter (after Esther, born in 1953) of Ernesto Koplowitz Sternberg, a Jewish businessman from Upper Silesia (Germany) who settled down in Spain to escape the increasing German Nazi persecution in the early-1930s, and Esther Romero de Juseu y Armenteros, a Spanish . (Alicia and Esther inherited their titles from their mother. Alicia is Marquesa de Bellavista and Marquesa del Real Socorro while Esther was Marquesa de Casa Peñalver, a title now inherited by one of her daughters.) Her parents married in 1950 in a Catholic ceremony.


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