Baroness Ariane de Rothschild (née Langner; 14 November 1965) is a French banker, president of the board of the
Edmond de Rothschild Group
The Edmond de Rothschild Group is a financial institution specialized in private banking and asset management. Based in Geneva, the group is family-owned and independent, and encompasses the Edmond de Rothschild Foundations (philanthropic arm), ...
since April 2019. She is the first woman to run a Rothschild-branded financial institution.
She was married to
Benjamin de Rothschild
Benjamin de Rothschild (30 July 1963 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France – 15 January 2021 in Pregny-Chambésy, Switzerland) was a French banker, the owner of the Edmond de Rothschild Group from 1997 until his death in 2021. He was the son of Edmon ...
from 23 January 1999 until his death on 15 January 2021. They have four daughters.
Family
Ariane de Rothschild was born in
San Salvador
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, El Salvador. Her father was a senior executive at the international pharmaceutical company
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. Until the age of eighteen, Ariane de Rothschild and her brother Philippe lived with their parents in
Bangladesh
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,
Colombia
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and the former
Zaire
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(
DRC
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).
In January 1999, she married
Benjamin de Rothschild
Benjamin de Rothschild (30 July 1963 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France – 15 January 2021 in Pregny-Chambésy, Switzerland) was a French banker, the owner of the Edmond de Rothschild Group from 1997 until his death in 2021. He was the son of Edmon ...
, son of
Edmond de Rothschild
Baron Abraham Edmond Benjamin James de Rothschild (Hebrew: הברון אברהם אדמונד בנימין ג'יימס רוטשילד - ''HaBaron Avraham Edmond Binyamin Ya'akov Rotshield''; 19 August 1845 – 2 November 1934) was a French memb ...
and heir of the
Edmond de Rothschild Group
The Edmond de Rothschild Group is a financial institution specialized in private banking and asset management. Based in Geneva, the group is family-owned and independent, and encompasses the Edmond de Rothschild Foundations (philanthropic arm), ...
. They have 4 daughters.
Her husband
Benjamin de Rothschild
Benjamin de Rothschild (30 July 1963 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France – 15 January 2021 in Pregny-Chambésy, Switzerland) was a French banker, the owner of the Edmond de Rothschild Group from 1997 until his death in 2021. He was the son of Edmon ...
died on 15 January 2021 of a heart attack. Ariane de Rothschild is not Jewish and did not convert to Judaism.
Education
Ariane de Rothschild attended the French lycée in Zaire, studied at
Sciences Po
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, mottoeng = Roots of the Future
, type = Public university, Public research university''Grande école''
, established =
, founder = Émile Boutmy
, a ...
in Paris
and holds an MBA in financial management from
Pace University
Pace University is a private university with its main campus in New York City and secondary campuses in Westchester County, New York. It was established in 1906 by the brothers Homer St. Clair Pace and Charles A. Pace as a business school. Pace ...
in New York, where she studied from 1988 to 1990.
Career
While studying at Pace, Ariane de Rothschild was a broker at
Société Générale
Société Générale S.A. (), colloquially known in English as SocGen (), is a French-based multinational financial services company founded in 1864, registered in downtown Paris and headquartered nearby in La Défense.
Société Générale ...
in
New York City
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. After graduating in 1990, she joined
AIG
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’s New York offices, and relocated to AIG's trading floor in Paris the same year. She met
Benjamin de Rothschild
Benjamin de Rothschild (30 July 1963 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France – 15 January 2021 in Pregny-Chambésy, Switzerland) was a French banker, the owner of the Edmond de Rothschild Group from 1997 until his death in 2021. He was the son of Edmon ...
, a client of AIG, in 1993.
After marrying Benjamin de Rothschild in 1999, Ariane de Rothschild joined the family business La Compagnie Financière Edmond de Rothschild (LCF) by taking on the management of the group's lifestyle assets (wineries, farms, hotels, restaurants). In 2005, she restructured the group's philanthropic activities with the intent to develop a sustainable "return on engagement" philanthropic model, which led to the creation of the
Edmond de Rothschild Foundations, a structure active in five different fields : Art and culture, health and research,
philanthropy
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, cultural dialogue and
social entrepreneurship
Social entrepreneurship is an approach by individuals, groups, start-up companies or entrepreneurs, in which they develop, fund and implement solutions to social, cultural, or environmental issues. This concept may be applied to a wide range of o ...
.
In 2006, she joined the supervisory board of LCF Edmond de Rothschild.
In 2008, she was appointed board member of the group, and vice-president in 2009. She focused her agenda on environmental and social impact investments, and on restructuring the company's scattered assets and subsidiaries.
In 2010, LCF Edmond de Rothschild changed its name to
Edmond de Rothschild Group
The Edmond de Rothschild Group is a financial institution specialized in private banking and asset management. Based in Geneva, the group is family-owned and independent, and encompasses the Edmond de Rothschild Foundations (philanthropic arm), ...
. In 2014, all of the group's financial and non-financial assets were reorganized within the group's structure. In 2015, the group published a
sustainability report for the first time.
On 30 January 2015, Ariane de Rothschild became the president of the executive committee, overseeing the group's operations. She was nominated to give a new impetus to the company. She brought a self-proclaimed "panache" to the spirit of the bank,
sparking innovation within the group's executive lines and breaking the ice in the banking industry with a new leadership style.
In 2016, she finalized the reorganization of the group's lifestyle assets under the new label
Edmond de Rothschild Heritage
The brand Edmond de Rothschild Heritage combines the non-banking lifestyle assets (wine, hotels, restaurants, farming) of the Edmond de Rothschild Group.
The brand's origins date back to the creation in 1920 of the Société Française des Hôte ...
. She pulled the Edmond de Rothschild Group out of Asia and, the following year, in 2017, she implemented the
Avaloq
Avaloq is a Swiss company that develops and provides software for core banking. The software system, Avaloq Banking Suite, is used by more than 140 banks worldwide.
Background
Core banking includes information about customers, transactions and ...
banking technology. In March 2019, the company removed Edmond de Rothschild (Switzerland) S.A. from public trading, making it entirely held by the group. Ariane de Rothschild became chairman of the board. The French business was folded into the Swiss company to simplify the structure of the group. In January 2021, her husband Benjamin de Rothschild died, making her the sole majority owner of the Edmond de Rothschild Group, holding the majority of the votes with her four daughters.
Other activities
From 2003 to 2011, the
Ariane de Rothschild Art Prize awarded contemporary art initiatives. The Ariane de Rothschild Women's Doctoral Program in
Israel
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was launched in 2009 to provide full financial support and enhanced educational programs to women pursuing a doctoral program. The following year, in 2010, the Ariane de Rothschild Fellowship Program was launched to foster intercultural dialogue through
social entrepreneurship
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and
social science
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, especially between the Jewish and Muslim communities.
In 2012, she talked with
Warren Buffett
Warren Edward Buffett ( ; born August 30, 1930) is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is currently the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He is one of the most successful investors in the world and has a net w ...
about philanthropy in the first scene of the documentary ''The Billionaires' Pledge''.
In 2018, she led the acquisition of the fragrance company
Parfums Caron
Parfums Caron is a French perfume house founded in 1904 by Ernest Daltroff. Over the course of the years, many Caron Perfumes were created. As of 2019, the brand is owned by Luxembourg-based Cattleya.
Foundation
Caron was founded in 1904 by Er ...
and managed the revival of the brand. After the death of husband Benjamin de Rothschild in 2021, she took over the management of the sailing stable Gitana Team. In 2021, she released the first vintage of the rosé wine L'Amistà (Château Roubine,
Côtes de Provence
Provence (Provençal) wine comes from the French wine-producing region of Provence in southeast France. The Romans called the area ''provincia nostra'' ("our province"), giving the region its name. Just south of the Alps, it was the first Roman pr ...
) she co-developed.
Distinctions
* 2022: Swiss Finance's Women To Watch
See also
*
Edmond de Rothschild Group
The Edmond de Rothschild Group is a financial institution specialized in private banking and asset management. Based in Geneva, the group is family-owned and independent, and encompasses the Edmond de Rothschild Foundations (philanthropic arm), ...
*
Benjamin de Rothschild
Benjamin de Rothschild (30 July 1963 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France – 15 January 2021 in Pregny-Chambésy, Switzerland) was a French banker, the owner of the Edmond de Rothschild Group from 1997 until his death in 2021. He was the son of Edmon ...
*
Rothschild family
The Rothschild family ( , ) is a wealthy Ashkenazi Jewish family originally from Frankfurt that rose to prominence with Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812), a court factor to the German Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel in the Free City of F ...
Further reading
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References
External links
Edmond de Rothschild Group websiteAdR Fellowship website
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1965 births
Living people
French baronesses
French humanitarians
Women humanitarians
French bankers
French philanthropists
21st-century French businesswomen
French viticulturists
Women corporate directors
Pace University alumni
People from San Salvador
Rothschild family