Louise Thérèse Blouin (born 1958/59) is a Canadian magazine publisher. She is the owner of
Louise Blouin Media
Louise Blouin Media is an art magazine and book publishing company based in New York City. Founded by Louise Blouin,. Archived March 18, 2006. it publishes the magazines ''Art+Auction'', ''Gallery Guide'' and ''Modern Painters''. It owns , a Fre ...
, which she founded.
Early life and education
Blouin was born in the suburbs of
Montreal
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-most populous city in Canada and List of towns in Quebec, most populous city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian ...
,
in
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...
, Canada, the sixth child of parents who owned an
insurance broker
An insurance broker is an intermediary who sells, solicits, or negotiates insurance on behalf of a client for compensation. An insurance broker is distinct from an insurance agent in that a broker typically acts on behalf of a client by negoti ...
age. Her father died when she was fifteen. She studied
commerce
Commerce is the large-scale organized system of activities, functions, procedures and institutions directly and indirectly related to the exchange (buying and selling) of goods and services among two or more parties within local, regional, nation ...
at
McGill University
McGill University (french: link=no, Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter granted by King George IV,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill Universit ...
, and later transferred to
Concordia University
Concordia University ( French: ''Université Concordia'') is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1974 following the merger of Loyola College and Sir George Williams University, Concordia is one of the t ...
. She did not graduate.
Career
Blouin worked as a
stock analyst and as a
stockbroker
A stockbroker is a regulated broker, broker-dealer, or registered investment adviser (in the United States) who may provide financial advisory and investment management services and execute transactions such as the purchase or sale of stocks an ...
. She later married
John MacBain
John H. McCall MacBain (born ) is a Canadian billionaire businessman and philanthropist who is the founder of the McCall MacBain Foundation and Pamoja Capital SA, its investment arm. Prior to establishing the McCall MacBain Foundation, in the l ...
and the couple acquired ''Auto Hebdo'', a
classified car trading magazine, in 1987.
The business grew into
Trader Classified Media
Trader Classified Media NV (formerly Hebdo Mag) was an international classified advertising company based in the Netherlands and run by Canadian John MacBain.
History
The company was founded in 1987 as Hebdo Mag by John MacBain and Louise Blou ...
. Although the couple separated in 2000,
Blouin did not sell her remaining shareholding until 2004. After the separation she became CEO of the London auction house
Phillips de Pury
Phillips, formerly known as Phillips the Auctioneers (briefly as Phillips de Pury), is a British auction house. It was founded in London in 1796, and has head offices in London and in New York City. It was owned by the Mercury Group, a Russian ...
, owned by her new companion
Simon de Pury
Simon de Pury (born 1951) is a Swiss auctioneer, art dealer, and collector. He has appeared in several television programs and films, including the Bravo network reality series '' Work of Art: The Next Great Artist''. His book ''The Auctioneer: ...
; in December 2002, after a year, she resigned.
She started
Louise Blouin Media
Louise Blouin Media is an art magazine and book publishing company based in New York City. Founded by Louise Blouin,. Archived March 18, 2006. it publishes the magazines ''Art+Auction'', ''Gallery Guide'' and ''Modern Painters''. It owns , a Fre ...
in 2003 and moved into art publications.
In 2005 Blouin started the Louise T. Blouin Foundation, an international organization for creativity and the arts.
[Felicia R. Lee (2 May 2005)]
A New Arts Foundation with a Focus on Creativity
''New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...
''. In October 2006 the foundation opened the Louise T. Blouin Institute in
Shepherd's Bush
Shepherd's Bush is a district of West London, England, within the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham west of Charing Cross, and identified as a major metropolitan centre in the London Plan.
Although primarily residential in character, i ...
in west
London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...
.
Blouin married Mathew Kabatoff, who worked for the Louise Blouin Foundation, in France in June 2011.
In 2016, her name appeared in the
Panama Papers
The Panama Papers ( es, Papeles de Panamá) are 11.5 million leaked documents (or 2.6 terabytes of data) that were published beginning on April 3, 2016. The papers detail financial and attorney–client information for more than 214,488 ...
as registered owner of five companies in the
British Virgin Islands
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. She commented, "I didn't even know. It is not relevant. It is not because you are in the Panama list that you did something wrong. You are the one informing me about that. You can't assume everyone with a BVI
ompanyhas done something wrong".
Personal life
In the early 1980s, Blouin married David MacDonald Stewart, a member of the Canadian
MacDonald tobacco
The Macdonald Tobacco Company (initially called McDonald Brothers and Co.), founded in 1858 by William Christopher Macdonald and his brother Augustine, converted tobacco leaf from southern U.S. suppliers to pipe and chewing tobacco in Montreal. A ...
family. The marriage was annulled within a year. In 1987, Blouin married
John MacBain
John H. McCall MacBain (born ) is a Canadian billionaire businessman and philanthropist who is the founder of the McCall MacBain Foundation and Pamoja Capital SA, its investment arm. Prior to establishing the McCall MacBain Foundation, in the l ...
.
Blouin lives in Switzerland.
Recognition
In 1993 Blouin was one of approximately 200 "Global Leaders of Tomorrow" listed by the
World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international non-governmental and lobbying organisation based in Cologny, canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded on 24 January 1971 by German engineer and economist Klaus Schwab. The foundation, ...
, a Swiss foundation.
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Blouin, Louise Therese
1950s births
Living people
Harvard Business School people
Canadian art collectors
Women art collectors
Businesspeople from Montreal
Canadian philanthropists
Canadian women in business
People named in the Panama Papers
Canadian women philanthropists