Ariane de Rothschild

CEO

Birthday November 14, 1965

Birth Sign Scorpio

Birthplace San Salvador, El Salvador

Age 58 years old

Nationality France

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1965

Ariane de Rothschild (née Langner; 14 November 1965) is a Salvadorean-French banker, CEO of Edmond de Rothschild Group since March 2023.

She is the first woman and the first person without Rothschild lineage to run a Rothschild-branded financial institution.

1988

Ariane Langner attended the French lycée in Zaire, studied at Sciences Po in Paris and holds an MBA in financial management from Pace University in New York, where she studied from 1988 to 1990.

While studying at Pace, Ariane Langner was a broker at Société Générale in New York City.

1990

After graduating in 1990, she joined AIG’s New York offices, and relocated to AIG's trading floor in Paris the same year.

1993

She met Benjamin de Rothschild, a client of AIG, in 1993.

1999

She was married to Benjamin de Rothschild from 23 January 1999 until his death on 15 January 2021.

They have four daughters.

In 2022, the net worth of the Benjamin de Rothschild family was estimated at 5 billion euros by French weekly business magazine Challenges.

Ariane Langner was born in San Salvador, El Salvador.

Her father was a senior executive at the international pharmaceutical company Hoechst.

Until the age of eighteen, Ariane Langner and her brother Philippe lived with their parents in Bangladesh, Colombia and the former Zaire (DRC).

In January 1999, she married Benjamin de Rothschild, son of Edmond de Rothschild and heir of the Edmond de Rothschild Group.

They have four daughters.

Her husband Benjamin de Rothschild died on 15 January 2021 of a heart attack.

Ariane de Rothschild is not Jewish and did not convert to Judaism.

After marrying Benjamin de Rothschild in 1999, Ariane de Rothschild joined the family business La Compagnie Financière Edmond de Rothschild (LCF) by taking on the management of the group's lifestyle assets (wineries, farms, hotels, restaurants).

2003

From 2003 to 2011, the Ariane de Rothschild Art Prize awarded contemporary art initiatives.

2005

In 2005, she restructured the group's philanthropic activities with the intent to develop a sustainable "return on engagement" philanthropic model, which led to the creation of the Edmond de Rothschild Foundations, a structure active in five different fields : Art and culture, health and research, philanthropy, cultural dialogue and social entrepreneurship.

2006

In 2006, she joined the supervisory board of LCF Edmond de Rothschild.

2008

In 2008, she was appointed board member of the group, and vice-president in 2009.

She focused her agenda on environmental and social impact investments, and on restructuring the company's scattered assets and subsidiaries.

2009

The Ariane de Rothschild Women's Doctoral Program in Israel was launched in 2009 to provide full financial support and enhanced educational programs to women pursuing a doctoral program.

2010

In 2010, LCF Edmond de Rothschild changed its name to Edmond de Rothschild Group.

The following year, in 2010, the Ariane de Rothschild Fellowship Program was launched to foster intercultural dialogue through social entrepreneurship and social science, especially between the Jewish and Muslim communities.

2012

In 2012, she talked with Warren Buffett about philanthropy in the first scene of the documentary The Billionaires' Pledge.

2014

In 2014, all of the group's financial and non-financial assets were reorganized within the group's structure.

2015

In 2015, the group published a sustainability report for the first time.

On 30 January 2015, Ariane de Rothschild became the president of the executive committee, overseeing the group's operations.

She was nominated to give a new impetus to the company.

She brought a self-proclaimed "panache" to the spirit of the bank, sparking innovation within the group's executive lines and breaking the ice in the banking industry with a new leadership style.

2016

In 2016, she finalized the reorganization of the group's lifestyle assets under the new label Edmond de Rothschild Heritage.

2017

She pulled the Edmond de Rothschild Group out of Asia and, the following year, in 2017, she implemented the Avaloq banking technology.

2018

In 2018, she led the acquisition of the fragrance company Parfums Caron and managed the revival of the brand, focusing its distribution on Middle Eastern countries.

After the death of husband Benjamin de Rothschild in 2021, she took over the management of the sailing stable Gitana Team.

2019

In March 2019, the company removed Edmond de Rothschild (Switzerland) S.A. from public trading, making it entirely held by the group.

Ariane de Rothschild became chairman of the board.

The French business was folded into the Swiss company to simplify the structure of the group.

In January 2021, her husband Benjamin de Rothschild died, which gave her majority control over the Edmond de Rothschild Group via her four daughters’ votes.

In March 2023, she took over as CEO of the group.