1. Sigrid Maria Elisabet Rausing FRSL was born on 29 January 1962 and is a Swedish philanthropist, anthropologist and publisher.
20 Facts About Sigrid Rausing
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Sigrid Rausing is the founder of the Sigrid Rausing Trust, one of the United Kingdom's largest philanthropic foundations, and owner of Granta magazine and Granta Books.
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Sigrid Rausing is the daughter of Swedish businessman Hans Rausing and his wife Marit Rausing.
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Sigrid Rausing has one sister, Lisbet Rausing and one brother, Hans Kristian Rausing.
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Sigrid Rausing's monograph based on her PhD, History, Memory, and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia: The End of a Collective Farm, was published by Oxford University Press in 2004.
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Sigrid Rausing writes occasional columns for the New Statesman, and her articles on human rights have appeared in The Guardian and The Sunday Times.
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Sigrid Rausing is the author of Mayhem: A Memoir, which shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize in 2018.
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In spring 2005, with her husband Eric Abraham and publisher Philip Gwyn-Jones, she founded the publishing house Portobello Books, and that autumn Sigrid Rausing acquired Granta, a literary journal, and its book publishing arm.
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Sigrid Rausing is the publisher of both Granta magazine and Granta Books, including its imprint Portobello Books.
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In 2010, Sigrid Rausing was made an Honorary Fellow of the London School of Economics.
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In February 2013, Sigrid Rausing was judged to be one of the 100 most powerful women in the United Kingdom by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4.
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In January 2016, Sigrid Rausing was the guest on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.
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In 2020, Sigrid Rausing was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and in 2021 she was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Literature from University College London.
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Sigrid Rausing set up the charitable trust the Sea Foundation in 1988.
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Sigrid Rausing is a judge on the jury of the Per Anger Prize for human rights defenders, and an emeritus board member of the Order of the Teaspoon, a Swedish organisation against political and religious extremism.
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Sigrid Rausing was the judge of the Amnesty International Media Awards in 2009 and 2010.
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Sigrid Rausing is an Emeritus member of the international board of Human Rights Watch and of the advisory board of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court.
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Sigrid Rausing is a former trustee of Charleston, in Sussex, the museum that is the former home of Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell.
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Sigrid Rausing is a supporter of Hope Not Hate, a UK advocacy group that campaigns against racism and fascism.
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In 2024, Sigrid Rausing was appointed vice-president of the Charleston Trust.