Margarita Louis-Dreyfus

Age

52

Source Of Wealth

commodities 

 

 

Residence

Zurich, Switzerland

Citizenship

Switzerland

Marital Status

Widowed

Children

3

Education

LLB, Moscow State University

Chairman of the French commodities behemoth Louis Dreyfus, Margarita Louis-Dreyfus took over the company when her husband Robert died after a long battle with leukemia in 2009. She's made big changes in recent years, selling the company's energy trading business in 2012, shaking up management and publicly declaring her intention to increase her stake. The company has been hunting for a CEO since April 2014, announcing in late December that negotiations with top-candidate and former Viterra head Mayo Schmidt fell through. She also owns French soccer giant Olympique Marseille, and reportedly fended off buyout offers from Saudi Prince Alwaleed in 2014. Russian-born and known as "the tsarina" by the French press, she reportedly put her twins, Kyril and Mauric, in boarding school in Singapore for a year to expose them to new cultures and schools of thoughts. Margarita and Robert married in 1992 after meeting on a plane; it was a second marriage for both.