Nicolas Berggruen

Nicolas Berggruen is the Chairman of Berggruen Holdings, a private company, which is the direct investment vehicle of the Nicolas Berggruen Charitable Trust. Berggruen Holdings has operations in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, as well as real estate and financial investments globally. Berggruen resides in Los Angeles, among other cities in the United States and abroad.

Through the Berggruen Institute on Governance, an independent, non-partisan think tank, Berggruen encourages the study and design of systems of good governance suited for the 21st century. Initiatives of the institute include the Think Long Committee for California.  In addition, he is the co-author, with Nathan Gardels, of Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century: A Middle Way between West and East, which was published in 2012.

In 2013, the Berggruen Institute collaborated with the Huffington Post to lauch THEWORLDPOST, a new online publication that brings together a diverse range of political leaders, global thinkers, Nobel laureates, and disruptive entrepreneurs from game-changing technology companies.

Berggruen is a director of the Zewail City of Science and Industry (Egypt), a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy. He sits on the boards of the Museum Berggruen (Berlin) and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In addition, he is a member of the International Councils for the Tate Museum (London) and the Museum of Modern Art.

Berggruen was born in Paris. He obtained a Bachelor of Science in Finance and International Business from New York University in 1981.