Delphine Arnault – $2 billion
Delphine Arnault is one of the richest women of France and in the world. She
graduated from the EDHEC Business School in Lille and the London School of
Economics. The daughter of Bernard Arnault, the Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton S.A., she first worked for McKinsey
& Company in Paris before joining her father’s company. She is the second biggest
individual stockholder in the company with 7.5 percent of all its shares. She serves
as the Human Resources Manager in the company, though she has also contributed
significantly in product development. Among the products she helped developed was
Dior Parfums. She got married in 2005 to Alessandro Vallarino Gancia, an Italian
heir to the Gancia dynasty of wines. The two got a divorce after five years, however.
