Edouard Etienne de Rothschild
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Édouard Étienne Alphonse de Rothschild December 27, 1957 Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France |
Édouard Étienne Alphonse de Rothschild (French pronunciation: [edwaːʁ etjɛn alfɔ̃s də ʁɔtʃild]; born December 27, 1957) is a businessman and part of the French branch of the prominent Rothschild family.
Édouard de Rothschild was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine. He is the son of Guy de Rothschild (1909–2007) and Marie-Hélène van Zuylen van Nyevelt (1927–1996). His father is Jewish and his mother is of half Egyptian, quarter Dutch, and quarter Jewish descent. He attended the Cours Hattemer, a private school. He studied law at Panthéon-Assas University in France and in 1985 graduated with an M.B.A. degree from the Stern School of Business at New York University.
In July 2003, Édouard de Rothschild was made head of Rothschild & Cie Banque, the Paris-based bank he founded in 1987 with his half-brother David René de Rothschild and cousin Éric de Rothschild. He stepped down in June 2004 saying he would remain involved as the non-executive chairman of the bank's supervisory board while taking on projects unrelated to finance. Until May 2005, he was a member of the Supervisory Board at Imerys S.A., a company the family had been a majority or significant shareholder in since 1880.
In January 2005, Édouard de Rothschild invested €20 million for a 37% controlling stake in the French newspaper Libération. The left-wing daily was founded by philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and Maoist militant journalist Serge July in 1973 but in recent years has sustained substantial losses.
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