"Carlos Slim attended an event hosted by Louise Blouin in New York in September 2011, the Blouin Creative Leadership Summit, where he received an award. "
"A wealthy businesswoman who owns $200 million in real estate is racking up legal proceedings, notably in the context of an offer to purchase one of the most expensive houses in Quebec...
The lawsuits suggest a princely lifestyle for the woman who made her fortune in particular with her shares in Trader Classified Media (the owner of Auto Hebdo), which she liquidated in 2005
WHO IS LOUISE BLOUIN? ..
She has been in the entourage of Prince Andrew & Bill Clinton..
Her name has appeared in the Panama Papers..
[She reminds me of the black sweater club 🤔👇]
"She made her fortune following the creation w her second husband John MacBain, of the classifieds company “Trader Classified Media”. During her divorce in 2000, her former husband gave her $200 million representing the value of her shares in the company" tvanouvelles.ca/2016/04/09/la-…
2017 "John McCall MacBain O.C. was presented with the Sheldon Medal yesterday for his visionary support for the University of Oxford "
The Rt Hon Lord Chris Patten of Barnes, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, presented the silver medal
"Professor Louise Richardson, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, added: ‘We see the evidence of this generosity all around the University. It has never been more important for universities to have the support of philanthropists.’ "
☝️Re Professor Louise Richardson
"Her leadership at the University of Oxford played an important role in the successful development of a vaccine to combat Covid-19 " ft.com/content/c833d2…
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FT : "In the early stage of vaccine development, for example, scientists at Oxford’s Jenner Institute needed £1m immediately to manufacture trial doses. There was no time to seek the money from external sources so Richardson agreed to provide it from central university funds...
Jul. 2020
"A generous gift of £3.5 million from Lakshmi Mittal and his family has secured the future of a critical professorship in vaccinology at the University. The post, which is currently held by Professor Adrian Hill,.. development.ox.ac.uk/news/future-of…
will be known as the Lakshmi Mittal and Family Professorship of Vaccinology in recognition of this support." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshmi_M…
Lakshmi Mittal is also a member of the board of trustees of the Cleveland Clinic
In 2002, Plaid Cymru MP Adam Price obtained a letter written by Tony Blair to the Romanian Government in support of Mittal's LNM Group steel company, which was in the process of bidding to buy Romania's state-owned industry..
"In 2007, it was announced that the Mittal family had purchased a 20 per cent shareholding in Queens Park Rangers football club joining Flavio Briatore and Mittal's friend Bernie Ecclestone"
As part of the investment Mittal's son-in-law, Amit Bhatia, took a place on the board of directors. The combined investment in the struggling club sparked suggestions that Mittal might be looking to join the growing ranks of wealthy individuals investing heavily in
English football and emulating similar benefactors such as Roman Abramovich
"On 19 February 2010 , Briatore resigned as QPR chairman, and sold further shares in the club to Ecclestone, making Ecclestone the single largest shareholder."
"Isha Ambani’s wedding: Hillary Clinton to Lakshmi Mittal, a list of global leaders who are attending
The Clintons and the Ambanis have an association that goes back more than 18 years and have met several times both in India and abroad, according to Indian media reports. "
" Former head of advertising giant WPP, Martin Sorrell, BP Group CEO Bob Dudley, Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington, 21st Century Fox CEO James Murdoch and Saudi Energy Minister Khalid Al-Falih are also invited"
"Mittal's residence at 18–19 Kensington Palace Gardens—which was purchased from Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone in 2004 for £67 million (US$128 million) ...."
"In 2019, Chemonics established an office in London, United Kingdom, to increase its aid work with the UK's Department for International Development and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office"
"The Church Commissioners for England has announced the members of the Oversight Group that will advise the Board on how it establishes the new impact investment fund and grant funding programme that is being set up"..
"The Right Reverend Dr Rosemarie Mallett, Bishop of Croydon, will chair the oversight group, and Geetha Tharmaratnam, Chief Impact Investment Officer of the WHO Foundation, will be Vice-Chair" churchofengland.org/media/press-re…
Not quite on his own tho:
"Along with Youssef Nader and Julian Schillinger, Farritor successfully deciphered the four passages of text, each with 140-plus characters, from the Herculaneum scrolls"
"AI unlocks ancient text owned by Caesar's family"
Last year a breakthrough came when Dr Brent Seales and his team at the University of Kentucky used high resolution CT scans to unroll the texts, butbbc.com/news/science-e…
the black carbon ink used on the scripts was indecipherable from the papyrus itself.
Dr Seales worked with tech investors to launch the Vesuvius Challenge, a $1m (£790,000) prize for anyone that could come up with a solution."..
"In June 2021 Medline was acquired by a consortium of private equity firms Blackstone, Carlyle and Hellman & Friedman valuing the company at $34 billion in one of the largest leveraged buyouts of all time." Wiki
"Based in Northfield, Ill., family-owned Medline is a little-known but major player in the field of medical equipment." archive.is/XtsqF
"Brothers James and Jon Mills founded the company in 1966, taking it public in 1972. The brothers bought back the shares five years later. James’s son Charlie has been Medline’s CEO since 1997." chicagotribune.com/2021/06/08/her…
"A systematic review and meta-analysis [Rogers J et al., 2020] of the neuropsychiatric manifestations of SARS and MERS CoV revealed that during the acute illness, common symptoms included confusion , depressed mood (32.6%), anxiety (35.7%), impaired memory (34.1%) & insomnia ."
And as I read your speculative thread @DecentBackup , I'm also wondering about Lobach's very public appearance at the WH when Ralph Lauren got his Protection Medal from Biden 🤔🎶