Jonas Kamprad (born March 1966) is a London-based Swedish
billionaire
A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e., a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. The American busin ...
, the son of
IKEA
IKEA (; ) is a Dutch multinational conglomerate based in the Netherlands that designs and sells , kitchen appliances, decoration, home accessories, and various other goods and home services. Started in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad, IKEA has been t ...
founder
Ingvar Kamprad
Feodor Ingvar Kamprad (; 30 March 1926 – 27 January 2018) was a Swedish billionaire best known for founding IKEA, a multinational retail company specialising in furniture. He lived in Switzerland from 1976 to 2014.
Early life and family ...
.
Early life
Jonas Kamprad was born in March 1966. He is the 2nd son of IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad.
Kamprad studied industrial and furniture design in
École cantonale d'art de Lausanne
The École cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL) is a university of art and design located in the Renens suburb of Lausanne, Switzerland. It was founded in 1821 and is affiliated with the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerla ...
(ECAL) in
Lausanne
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, Switzerland.
Career
Together with his two brothers, he owns
Ikano Group, which manages Ikea's real estate, insurance and financial service businesses.
Personal life
Kamprad is married, with two children, and lives in London, England.
References
1966 births
Living people
Swedish billionaires
Swedish people of German descent
Swedish people of Czech descent
Swedish expatriates in Switzerland
Swedish expatriates in the United Kingdom
21st-century Swedish businesspeople
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