Ariane de Rothschild | |
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Ariane de Rothschild, 2015
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Born |
Ariane Langner November 1965 (age 51) San Salvador, El Salvador |
Nationality | French |
Occupation | CEO of the Edmond de Rothschild group |
Spouse(s) | Benjamin de Rothschild (m. 1999) |
Children | Noémie de Rothschild, Alice de Rothschild, Eve de Rothschild, Olivia de Rothschild |
Family | The Rothschild Family |
Ariane de Rothschild (née Langner, born in November 1965) is President of the Executive Committee of Edmond de Rothschild since 2015, and vice-president of the Edmond de Rothschild Holding SA since 1999. She has been married to Benjamin de Rothschild since January 23, 1999 with whom she has four daughters.
Ariane de Rothschild was born in San Salvador, El Salvador to a father who was a senior executive at an international pharmaceutical company. Until the age of eighteen, Ariane de Rothschild lived in Bangladesh, Colombia and the former Zaire (DRC).
First a broker at Société Générale in New York City, she then joined the U.S insurance group AIG, and oversaw its entry and development into France and Europe.
Since 2008, Ariane de Rothschild has been a board member of the major entities of Edmond de Rothschild group, and was appointed vice-president of Edmond de Rothschild SA in 2009. She was appointed President of the Executive Committee of Edmond de Rothschild in January 2015.
Ariane de Rothschild holds an MBA from Pace University in New York.
Ariane de Rothschild initially joined Edmond de Rothschild to manage the Group's non-financial activities (wineries, agriculture and hospitality) and transform the philanthropic heritage of the family into an international network. She is committed to social empowerment through the arts and entrepreneurship with programs such as AIMS (Paris Ecole des Beaux Arts), Count me In (Carnegie Hall, New York), Scale up (ESSEC Business School), CRECE (Unltd Spain) and the Ariane de Rothschild Fellowship.
She has also shifted the family's investments in private equity towards sustainable financial activities, taking into account the social and environmental impacts of their operations. This vision paved the way for the creation of the "Moringa fund" dedicated to agroforestry in Africa and South America, as well as the "Ginkgo fund" focused on brownfield redevelopment en Europe. She also develops investments in high-potential areas, including African ventures, biotechnologies, earth sciences and FinTech.