Anne Dias-Griffin
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| Born | 1970 (age 46–47) France |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Anne Dias |
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Georgetown University (BA) Harvard University (MBA) |
| Occupation | Hedge fund manager |
| Spouse(s) | Kenneth C. Griffin (2003-2015); 3 children |
Anne Dias-Griffin (born 1970) is an American money manager and philanthropist. She is the founder and managing partner of the Chicago-based Aragon Global Management, a hedge fund that focuses on global equities.
Dias-Griffin was born in France in 1970. She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in 1992, where she once worked as an overnight security guard to pay for tuition. She received an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1997.
To further finance her undergraduate education, Dias Griffin worked full-time during college, on both domestic and foreign policy issues. She was a research assistant to constitutional law scholar Walter Berns, the Olin Professor of Government at Georgetown University, and helped research a book on the Electoral College. She also assisted Patrick J. Glynn, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, on his book about the history of the Cold War.
In 1991, she was the Brussels representative for the American Electronics Association, and focused on European policy issues. She also worked on European Community and foreign policy issues as an intern at the German Parliament in Bonn and Berlin during the summer of 1992.
Dias Griffin has written on foreign policy issues for the Financial Times; she wrote about US loans to help rain forest conservation in Latin America.
She owns the for-profit website Reboot Illinois, which she launched in 2012.
After receiving her degree from Georgetown University, Dias Griffin worked as a financial analyst in the Investment Banking department of Goldman Sachs in London and New York and at Fidelity Investments Limited in London. She joined Soros Fund Management as an analyst after obtaining her MBA and was promoted to portfolio manager one year later. At Soros, she specialized in the retail and financial services industry and managed a long/short portfolio of financial services stocks. Dias Griffin then joined Connecticut-based Viking Global Investors as an analyst, focusing on global media and internet stocks.
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