12 Facts About Ian Maxwell

Ian Maxwell was born on 1956 and is a British businessman and co-founder of the think tank Combating Jihadist Terrorism.

Ian Maxwell, born 1956 in Maisons-Laffitte, France, is the son of Elisabeth, a French-born scholar, and Robert Ian Maxwell, a Czechoslovak-born media mogul.

Ian Maxwell's father was Jewish and his mother was a French Protestant of Huguenot descent.

Ian Maxwell is one of nine siblings, of which two died in childhood.

Ian Maxwell was educated at Summer Fields School, Marlborough College and Oxford University.

In 1991, it was reported that Ian Maxwell worked for The European.

Ian Maxwell was appointed chairman of Mirror Group Newspapers plc following the death of his father on 5 November 1991.

In 1995, Ian Maxwell was involved with Maximov Publications, a company with a focus on content about Russia and the Soviet Union's former republics.

The Scotsman reported in 2001 that Ian Maxwell was a director of 31 companies and worked for Westbourne Communications, a public relations firm which represented Telemonde.

Ian Maxwell announced in September 2018 that he and his brother Kevin had founded a UK think tank, Combating Jihadist Terrorism, with the aim of better understanding terrorism and its causes.

In 1991, Ian Maxwell married Laura Marie Plumb, a television executive, born in Chicago, currently a Vedic scholar and practitioner of Ayurveda, Jyotish, and yoga.

In March 2021, Ian Maxwell expressed concern about the welfare in a US prison of his sister Ghislaine who was then awaiting trial on criminal charges relating to her association with Jeffrey Epstein.