Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière

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Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière
Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière.jpg
BornNovember 6, 1940 (1940-11-06) (age 80)
Nice, France
NationalityFrench
Alma materÉcole nationale d'administration
OccupationBusinessman

Marc Eugène Charles Ladreit de Lacharrière (born November 6, 1940) is the CEO of FIMALAC (a.k.a. Financière Marc de Lacharrière), once majority owner of credit rating agency Fitch Group from which it divested between 2015 and 2018, selling its stake to Hearst Corporation. [2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

On the Forbes 2016 list of the world's billionaires, he was ranked #722 with a net worth of US$2.4 billion.[1]

Early life[]

Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière was born on November 6, 1940 in Nice.[3][4][7][9] From 1968 to 1970, he attended the École nationale d'administration.[3][4][7][10][11]

Career[]

In 1961, he started a teen magazine and sold it off a few years later.[3][4] He then worked for Suez, Masson, and Valeurs Actuelles.[3][4][7] He worked for L'Oréal for fifteen years, and was its CEO for a while.[3][4][5] He served as the Chairman of Duff & Phelps.[6] He is a member of the Board of Directors of Renault, L'Oréal, , Cassina, and Canal Plus.[3][4][6][10][11] He is Honorary Chairman of the (French National Committee of Foreign Trade Advisors), and a member of the Consultative Committee of Banque de France.[10] He is a former member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group.[12]

In 2018, he was found guilty of misappropriating funds as part of the Fillon affair, an employment scandal involving Penelope Fillon, the wife of then French politician François Fillon.[13] He was sentenced to eight months in prison.

Philanthropy[]

He sits on the Board of the American Friends of the Louvre.[3][4][5][7] He helped renovate the Théâtre du Rond-Point in Paris.[3][4][7] He is a former Vice-Chairman of Fondation Agir Contre l'Exclusion (FACE), which he co-founded with Martine Aubry.[6][7] He is also a member of the Fondation Culture et Diversité, , , Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, Musée des arts décoratifs, the Société des Amis du Musée du quai Branly.[6][7][10][14] In 2006, he was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts.[5][9] In August 2010, he was named Goodwill Ambassador for the UNESCO.[4][8] He is the President of the Revue des deux Mondes.[5]

Personal life[]

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 women playing polo on snow and has founded the La Martina brand. .[3]

Filmography[]

See also[]

  • List of French people by net worth

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "The World's Billionaires (2016 ranking): #722 Marc Ladreit de Lacharriere". Forbes. March 1, 2016. Retrieved 2017-01-01.
  2. ^ Hufford, Austen (12 April 2018). "Hearst Takes Full Ownership of Fitch Group". Wall Street Journal.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j Forbes 2007 profile
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j Forbes 2010 profile
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Human Rights Watch biography
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e BusinessWeek profile
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h Lacharrière : «Finance et culture sont complémentaires», in L'Express, 05/10/2007 [1]
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador nomination
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b Académie des Beaux Arts biography
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Renault board
  11. ^ Jump up to: a b Groupe Casino biography Archived 2011-08-02 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ "Former Steering Committee Members". bilderbergmeetings.org. Bilderberg Group. Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
  13. ^ "Affaire Penelope Fillon : Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière condamné à huit mois de prison avec sursis". Le Monde.fr. 11 December 2018.
  14. ^ UNESCO picture Archived 2012-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
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