Monique Nepveu

Background

Her father was Jewish and her mother Roman Catholic.

Career

Born Monique Louis-Dreyfus, she was one of three children born to Jean and Jeanne Madeline (née Depierre) Louis-Dreyfus. Her grandfather was Louis Louis-Dreyfus who served in the French Parliament during the French Third Republic. Monique owns 12.5% of the Louis Dreyfus Group making her a billionaire.

Achievements

• She is the great granddaughter of Léopold Louis-Dreyfus, founder of the Louis-Dreyfus Group, which had begun buying and selling wheat in the Alsace region a century earlier, and rapidly diversified into shipping, oil and other commodities.