Lisbet Rausing
| Lisbet Rausing | |
|---|---|
| Born | 9 June 1960 |
| Education |
University of California at Berkeley Harvard University. |
| Occupation | Science historian, philanthropist |
| Title | Dr |
| Parent(s) |
Hans Rausing Märit Rausing |
| Relatives |
Hans Kristian Rausing (brother) Sigrid Rausing (sister) |
Anna Lisbet Kristina Rausing (born 9 June 1960) is a science historian and philanthropist. She is a co-founder of Arcadia, one of the UK’s largest philanthropic foundations, and director of Ingleby Farms & Forests (Ingleby Company).
Lisbet Rausing is the eldest daughter of Hans Rausing and his wife Märit Rausing. She has one sister, Sigrid Rausing, and one brother, Hans Kristian Rausing. Her grandfather, Ruben Rausing, was co-founder of the Swedish packaging company Tetra Pak.
Rausing studied History at the University of California, Berkeley (B.A., summa cum laude 1984) and completed an M.A.(1987) and Ph.D. (1993) in History at Harvard University, where she taught for eight years.
Harvard University Press published Rausing's scholarly biography of Carl Linnaeus Linnaeus: Nature and Nation in 1999. Throughout her career she has published a range of articles on related subjects in scholarly journals including Representations,Configurations, and History of Political Economy. She has also contributed to the Financial Times and The Sunday Telegraph, and has published a number of pieces on the evolution of archive digitization and on open access to scholarship.
Rausing is a senior research fellow at Imperial College. She holds honorary doctorates from Uppsala University and SOAS and she is an elected member of St Catherine's College, Cambridge. She is also an honorary fellow of the British Academy, the Linnean Society, the Royal Historical Society, The Royal Society of Biology and the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry. In 2005 she was appointed to the Harvard Board of Overseers and Yad Hanadiv Advisory Committee. She serves on the Cambridge Conservation Initiative Advisory Board and is co-chair of the Harvard Capital Campaign.
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