Édouard de Rothschild

Édouard Étienne Alphonse de Rothschild (French pronunciation: ​[edwaʁ etjɛn alfɔ̃s də ʁɔtʃild]; born 27 December 1957) is a businessman and part of the French branch of the Rothschild family.

Édouard de Rothschild
Born
Édouard Étienne Alphonse de Rothschild

(1957-12-27) 27 December 1957
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Early life and education

Édouard de Rothschild was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine. He is the son of Guy de Rothschild (1909–2007) and Marie-Hélène van Zuylen van Nyevelt (1927–1996). His father is Jewish and his mother is of half Syrian, one-quarter Dutch, and one-quarter Jewish descent[1] He attended the Cours Hattemer, a private school.[2] He studied law at Panthéon-Assas University in France and in 1985 graduated with an M.B.A. degree from the Stern School of Business at New York University.[3]

Career

In July 2003, Édouard de Rothschild was made head of Rothschild & Cie Banque, the Paris-based bank he founded in 1987 with his half-brother David René de Rothschild and cousin Éric de Rothschild. He stepped down in June 2004 saying he would remain involved as the non-executive chairman of the bank's supervisory board while taking on projects unrelated to finance.[3] Until May 2005, he was a member of the Supervisory Board at Imerys S.A., a company the family had been a majority or significant shareholder in since 1880.

In January 2005, Édouard de Rothschild invested €20 million for a 37% controlling stake in the French newspaper Libération.[3] The left-wing daily was founded by philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and Maoist militant journalist Serge July in 1973 but in recent years has sustained substantial losses.

He owns a share of the Château Lafite vineyard.[3]

Personal life

Edouard has been married twice:

  • In 1982, he married Mathilde Alexe Marie Christiane Coche de la Ferté (b. 1952), former wife of Sir Valentine Abdy. The marriage ended in divorce.
  • In 1991, he married Arielle Marie Mallard (b. 1963). She is the vice-president of the humanitarian organization CARE France and represents her country on the Board of Directors of CARE International.[4] She holds a doctorate in economics and previously worked at the World Bank and Lazard Frères.[5] They have four children:
  1. David de Rothschild (twin)[3]
  2. Alienor de Rothschild (twin)[3]
  3. Ferdinand de Rothschild[3]
  4. Louis de Rothschild[3]

An avid horse enthusiast, Édouard de Rothschild competes both nationally and internationally in equestrian show jumping. He inherited the Haras de Meautry stud farm in Toques in Basse-Normandie where he breeds thoroughbred race horses.[6] His involvement in racing led to his 2004 election as President of the French horse racing association, "France Galop."[7] Being of partial Jewish descent, he accepted an invitation in 2010 from the Israeli Equestrian Federation to represent Israel in international competitions.[8]

gollark: It might actually be useful to have some kind of neural network file format detector for bad formats without clear headers. Or to help recover damaged files.
gollark: Can't wait for the `file` command to take several seconds of heavy GPU load.
gollark: You would still want to have information about the geese though.
gollark: I think a useful component of AGI would be being able to efficiently offload subtasks to specialised algorithms instead of just doing them inefficiently in neural networks, but I have no idea if this is very practical or anyone's doing it.
gollark: There are tons of non-learning algorithms which are good for logical reasoning. The fuzzier stuff which humans do easily seems to be what's harder to implement.

References
  2. "Quelques Anciens Celebres". Hattemer. Archived from the original on 2015-06-18. Retrieved 2015-06-30.
  3. Website of Edouard de Rothschild: Biography retrieved July 5, 2012
  4. Care international Board retrieved July 5, 2012
  5. Le Parisienne: "Arielle de Rothschild: «L'humanitaire doit être efficace» by J.-P. S. et Ch.G. November 8, 2010
  6. Stud Farm Haras de Meautry website: History retrieved July 5, 2012
  7. Website of Edouard de Rothschild: French Galop retrieved July 5, 2012
  8. Website of Edouard de Rothschild: Israel retrieved July 5, 2012
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