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From The Sunday Times
March 1, 2009

Nicolas Berggruen (Switzerland)

GREEN RANKING FOR 2009
Ranking: 25=
Worth: £1.8bn
Green investment: Wind power

Nicolas Berggruen grew up in France and Switzerland. His father, Heinz, was once the world’s greatest Picasso collector. Nicolas now lives in hotels in America, having made a fortune in finance. Berggruen’s first job was buying and selling property. He founded an investment firm in 1986 and has never looked back. Berggruen Holdings now has net assets of more than $3 billion. Today he invests in art, property and private equity. He owns an Indian hotel chain, Turkish wind-power licences and Israeli real estate. Forbes put his fortune at £2.03 billion in October 2008. We cut him back to £1.8 billion.

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