BARON BENJAMIN DE ROTHSCHILD, born July 30, 1963 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, is the son of the late Baron Edmond de Rothschild and the husband of Baroness Ariane, née Langner, with whom he had four daughters.
After his secondary education in Paris and Geneva, he pursued graduate studies in the United States at Pepperdine University, California (Business and Management). Between 1985 and 1987 he completed various internships in the companies of the Edmond de Rothschild Group (issues and bonds department; foreign exchange and trading rooms). In 1989 he founded his own company, Compagnie de Trésorerie Benjamin de Rothschild, which became CBR Conseil in 2012.
Since the death of his father in November 1997, he was Chairman of the Edmond de Rothschild Group. He chaired, among others, the Board of Directors of Edmond de Rothschild (Switzerland) SA and Edmond de Rothschild (France) SA.
Benjamin de Rothschild was also active in various philanthropic foundations for the arts and sciences. He was head of the board of the Edmond de Rothschild Foundation New York, the Caesarea Edmond de Rothschild Foundation in Israel and the Fondation Hôpital Adolphe de Rothschild in Paris.
Benjamin de Rothschild passed away on January 15, 2021 in Pregny, Switzerland. The Edmond de Rothschild Foundations are deeply grateful for his commitment and leadership over the years.
Ariane de Rothschild was born in San Salvador and spent her childhood in Latin America and Africa. She is fluent in French, English, Spanish, German and Italian.
She pursued advanced business studies in Paris, before earning a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Pace University in New York.
Over the past twenty years, Ariane de Rothschild has acquired solid experience in the financial and banking world. She began her career as a currency and metals trader with Société Générale in Australia and New York. She then joined the American insurance company AIG and successfully developed the European activities of this group from Paris.
Ariane de Rothschild is currently CEO of Edmond de Rothschild Group.
She also devotes part of her time to philanthropy through the historic network of family foundations as President of the Edmond de Rothschild Foundations based in Switzerland, France, Spain, the United States and Israel.
Karin Jestin serves as CEO of the Edmond de Rothschild Foundations. She has 25 years of experience in the social economy, where she has held board and management positions in non-profit organizations and donor foundations.
After starting her career as a strategy and organization consultant with McKinsey & Company, and then leading a collective art project, Karin Jestin joined the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in Geneva. She then became a director at Foundation Strategy Group (FSG), where she led consulting projects on philanthropy and corporate social responsibility.
In 2008, she took charge of the Lombard Odier Foundation, and developed the philanthropy consultancy of the eponymous bank, which she managed until 2015. She then pursued this activity as an independent consultant, accompanying patrons and foundations in the realization of their philanthropic ambitions, combining the rigor of strategic consulting with a passion for the common good.
Quadrilingual and a graduate of HEC, Karin is a lecturer at the University of Geneva on the subject of donor foundation strategies.
She will join the Edmond de Rothschild ecosystem at the end of 2022.
Delphine Bottge is a partner of the Law Firm Bottge & Associés. For more than 15 years, she has been mainly practising law in the field of philanthropy and has been involved in numerous philanthropic projects.
She is a specialist in the incorporation of philanthropic structures (foundations, associations etc.), in the drafting of donation agreements and an expert on governance questions. She has inside knowledge on the specific issues of the philanthropic field. In this respect, she often accompanies philanthropists over the life of their projects, helping them to define and develop their strategy.
Delphine also sits on two boards of foundations under the Edmond the Rothschild umbrella, namely the Fondation Maurice et Noémie de Rothschild, based in Geneva and the Fundacion Ariane de Rothschild based in Madrid.
Julien Gottsman is the general director of the Rothschild Foundation and associate professor at the University of Versailles. He has successively occupied the positions of director of human resources at Garches Hospital, director of economic services and finances at Pitié-Salpêtrière, general secretary at the National Institute of Cancer and director of medical human resources at AP-HP.
A graduate of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique (majoring in hospital direction), he also holds a diploma from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, an MBA in public law from the London School of Economics and Columbia University and a certificate of law (EFB laureate).
In 1987 François L. Morin joined Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, one of the largest and oldest law firms in Canada and became partner in 1997. As a result of mandates from trust companies and a wide range of wealthy individuals, François has acquired expertise in everything relating to income tax issues, particularly with regard to wealth preservation and transfer of wealth to future generations, including planning involving family trusts and other types of estate planning for Canadians and international clients.
He has advised families on business succession issues and on corporate reorganization after a death. In recent years, he has assisted registered charities and wealthy individuals in structuring, from a tax point of view, the gifting of substantial assets. He has advised registered charities with respect to technical and reporting issues with the revenue departments and with respect to investment opportunities.
Valerie Monchi is Managing Director in Research and Business Manager for Global Research at Barclays, New York. In her role, Valerie supports the strategic and economic decision-making, business development, and implementation of regulatory and strategic initiatives as they relate to Research. Valerie also leads the Chief Content Operating Office, responsible for the production and distribution of Research to clients globally. Ms. Monchi joined Barclays in September 2008. Prior to that, she worked in similar roles at Lehman Brothers, which she joined in London in 2000. Prior to joining the investment banking industry, Ms. Monchi worked as a journalist and publisher for 10 years.
She was one of the founding editors of Prospect magazine in the UK, where she worked between 1995-2000. Prior to that, she was deputy foreign editor at the Jewish Chronicle in London. Throughout her career, Valerie has championed diversity efforts, most recently as co-chair of the Women’s Initiative Network at Barclays. Ms. Monchi was born in France and holds a First Class Honours degree in Philosophy from McGill University, as well as a B.Phil. from Balliol College, Oxford.
Philip M. Susswein is a partner at the international law firm Proskauer Rose LLP. He is one of a line of lawyers at Proskauer Rose LLP stretching back over fifty years who have represented members of the Rothschild family in personal, business and philanthropic pursuits. He has been involved with the work of The Edmond de Rothschild Foundation since 1999 and has been Secretary to the foundation since 2003.
A graduate of the University of Wisconsin and of the Rutgers Law School, he has taught at Fordham Law School and served as a Director of a pro bono legal services organization created by the New York City Bar Association. For over twenty years, he has managed one of the firm's longest-lived programs providing end-of-life planning for persons with AIDS.
David Hayon is a board member of Ariane de Rothschild Foundation (ADRF) since 2007. He serves as treasurer for the ADRF and works actively together with Edmond de Rothschild Foundations’ team on the definition and implementation of different projects and programs developed in Spain, particularly in social entrepreneurship, education and arts.
David joined Edmond de Rothschild Group in 2001. He has developed his professional career as a business development manager in the private banking and fund services in the Spanish and LATAM markets. He has more than 15 years experience and advanced knowledge of the Luxembourg Banking Industry and Private Banking & Wealth Management business. David is a business administration graduate of Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He is a Spanish citizen and resides in Madrid, Spain.
Since 2002, Pierre Sasson is the Chairman and CEO of COGIFRANCE, a subsidiary of the Edmond Rothschild group in Paris, specialized in real estate development. He started his career in management consulting at GAMMA INTERNATIONAL and has previously worked for CIC-Banques(1990 -1998), within the Process and Organization Department and within the Marketing Branch.
Pierre Sasson is member of the Board of the Holding Benjamin and Edmond Rothschild Pregny. He is also member of the Board and Treasurer of the Fondation Ophtalmologique Adolphe de Rothschild, a Paris-based Hospital, and of the OPEJ-Baron Edmond de Rothschild Foundation, an organization specialized in the protection of children and young people. Pierre is a graduate from the French École Polytechnique and the French École Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique.
Since 2007, Francis-André Wollman is the Director of the Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique (IBPC) in Paris - a research institute dedicated to life sciences which is supported by the Edmond de Rothschild Foundation for the Development of Scientific Research.
In the past ten years Francis-André Wollman fostered an integrated view of the current challenges in the dynamics of cellular bioenergetics that places IBPC at the frontier of knowledge in contemporary biology. He promoted the association of the Edmond de Rothschild Foundation for the Development of Scientific Research͟ with the Paris Sciences et Lettres͟ (PSL) research university.
He was awarded several prizes, including the Silver Medal of the CNRS. Francis-André Wollman is a graduate from the Science University of Paris (P7) where he completed a PhD in biophysics. He developed most of his career at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), where he is appointed as the Director of Exceptional Class.
Dr Alain Fischer studied medicine, with a specialization in pediatrics and immunology at the University of Paris. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the University College London, he started independent research in an INSERM unit at the Necker Hospital in Paris.
From 2009 to 2016, he was the director of the Institute for Genetic Diseases (Imagine) at Necker University Hospital. Dr Fischer also served as a professor of pediatric immunology at the Paris Descartes University. From 1996 to 2012, he has served as the director of the pediatric immunology department at Necker Hospital. Dr Fischer is presently Professor at College de France. Dr Fischer's main research interests are gene therapy, primary immunodeficiency diseases, and the development of the lymphoid system. Dr Fischer received the Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine in 2001 and the Japan Prize in 2015.
Eric Molinié graduated from HEC Paris and first joined Banque Indosuez in 1983 as a syndicate manager for bond issues. Previously he was the Deputy CEO at Cyril Finance (1987-1998), the CEO of the NGO (AFM) which created the French telethon (1999-2003) and an Advisor to the EDF CEO (2004-2009). Additionally, he has acted as the French Ombudsman (2010-2011) and the President of Samu Social de Paris dedicated to the homeless people(2011-2013). From 2010 to 2014, he was in charge of Ethics and Corporate Responsibility as a Deputy Vice President within EDF Group Sustainable Development Division. Eric has published 20 propositions for developing CSR in France and since 2013, is the President of EDF group Ethics and Deontology Committee.
Since 2015, he is a member of the Deontology Committee of the French National Authority for Health" and a member of the Board of the French NGO ATD Quart Monde. In 2016 he was appointed Member of SRI (Socially Responsible Investment) Label Committee by the French Government.
Pascal Chevalley holds a bachelor degree in accounting from the School of Business in Geneva.He began his career with the international firm Deloitte SA as an Accountant Officer (1989 -1995).
Pascal Chevalley joined the Edmond de Rothschild Group in 1996 at Edmond de Rothschild Holding SA. He then joined the Baron Benjamin de Rothschild Family Office in 1999, where he was appointed General Manager in 2008.
In addition to his current role as Head of the Family Office, Pascal Chevalley serves as a member of the Board of Directors of several companies and foundations in Switzerland and abroad.
Co-founder partner at Araoz & Rueda (1994), he has developed his practice advising in general corporate and commercial matters and, more specifically, in mergers, acquisitions and capital markets, where he has extensive experience. Furthermore, he regularly advises in litigation (including arbitration) and restructuring/insolvency matters. He has been Associate Professor for Commercial Law at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and is the author of numerous publications on corporate and security laws.
Alejandro holds a J.D. (1985) and a Ph. D. ("Cum laude", 1998) from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, as well as a LL.M. from the London School of Economics and Political Science (1986) and LL.M. from the New York University School of Law (1987). He has been Visitor Researcher at Harvard Law School and Ludwig-Maximilian University (Munich) (1992-1993).
Pierre Donnersberg is the director of SIACI SAINT HONORE, the second brokering insurance group in France. He began his career in 1968 at Séquanaise (UAP), and shortly joined the French General Insurance as an inspector.
In 1974 he became the principal inspector at Winterthur. Under the umbrella of the Edmond de Rothschild company, he created the Courtage Saint-Honoré society which has since developed into the Saint-Honoré Insurance Brokerage.
A lover of contemporary art, Pierre is also the administrator of the Adolphe de Rothschild Ophthalmological Foundation since 1995, and the administrator and treasurer of the French Federation for Epilepsy since 2012. He was named officer by The National Order of the Legion of Honor in 2016.