Marc Eugène Charles Ladreit de Lacharrière (born November 6, 1940) is the
CEO
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of
FIMALAC
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(a.k.a. Financière Marc de Lacharrière), once majority owner of credit rating agency
Fitch Group
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from which it divested between 2015 and 2018, selling its stake to Hearst Corporation.Forbes 2007 profile /ref> /ref>Human Rights Watch biography /ref>BusinessWeek profile /ref>Lacharrière : «Finance et culture sont complémentaires», in ''
L'Express
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'', 05/10/200 /ref>UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador nomination /ref>
On the ''
Forbes
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'' 2016 list of the world's billionaires, he was ranked #722 with a net worth of
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2.4 billion.
Early life
Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière was born on November 6, 1940, in
Nice
Nice ( ; ) is a city in and the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of nearly one millionAcadémie des Beaux Arts biography /ref> From 1968 to 1970, he attended the
École nationale d'administration
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.Groupe Casino biography
Career
In 1961, he started a teen
magazine
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and sold it off a few years later. He then worked for
Suez
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Valeurs Actuelles
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''. He worked for
L'Oréal
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for fifteen years, and was its CEO for a while. He served as the Chairman of
Duff & Phelps
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. He is a member of the Board of Directors of
Renault
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Banque de France
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. He is a former member of the Steering Committee of the
Bilderberg Group
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In 2018, he was found guilty of misappropriating funds as part of the
Fillon affair
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, an employment scandal involving Penelope Fillon, the wife of then French politician
François Fillon
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. He was sentenced to eight months in prison.
In 2015, the Groupe Marc de Lacharriere (GML), his family holding company, invested in a 5% stake in
Warburg Pincus
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. Apart from a single Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund, GML is the only known third-party owner of a general partnership stake in Warburg Pincus. In 2024, Charles Kaye, CEO of Warburg Pincus, commented that GML was a "constructive shareholder”, treated like partners in the firm, and had “given us capital to invest in our own funds and fund new initiatives.”
Philanthropy
He sits on the Board of the American Friends of the
Louvre
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. He helped renovate the
Théâtre du Rond-Point
The Théâtre du Rond-Point () is a theatre in Paris, located at 2bis avenue Franklin-D.-Roosevelt, 8th arrondissement.
History
The theatre began with an 1838 project of architect Jacques Ignace Hittorff for a rotunda in the Champs Elysees. I ...
in
Paris
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. He is a former vice-chairman of
Fondation Agir Contre l'Exclusion Fondation Agir Contre l'Exclusion (FACE) is a private foundation in France. The aim is to help young people from humble backgrounds to join the private sector.
Overview
It was founded by Martine Aubry in 1993.Élisabeth Laville, ''L'entreprise vert ...
(FACE), which he co-founded with
Martine Aubry
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Académie des Beaux-Arts
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Background
The academy was created in 1816 in Paris as a me ...
UNESCO
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He is divorced, with four children and has one sister, Jacqueline Hacker de Lacharriere, married to Swiss industrial tycoon Manfred Hacker. She is the first woman playing polo on snow and has founded the La Martina brand.
Patients
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See also
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List of French people by net worth
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