Lisbet Rausing

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Dame Anna Lisbet Kristina Rausing DBE (born 9 June 1960) is a British and Swedish science historian and philanthropist. She co-founded the Arcadia Fund,[2] one of the UK's largest philanthropic foundations.

Early life

Anna Lisbet Kristina Rausing, born on 9 June 1960 in Lund, Sweden, is a member of the wealthy Swedish Rausing family. She is the eldest child and daughter of Hans (1926–2019) and Märit Rausing, and has one sister, Sigrid Rausing (born 1962) and one brother, Sir Hans Kristian Rausing (born 1963). Her grandfather, Ruben Rausing (1895–1983), was co-founder of the Swedish multinational food packaging company Tetra Pak.[3]

Rausing earned a B.A. degree summa cum laude in History from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984. She later pursued graduate studies at Harvard University, where she received a M.A. degree in History in 1987, followed by a Ph.D. in the same field in 1993.

Career

Harvard University Press published Rausing's scholarly biography of Carl Linnaeus, Linnaeus: Nature and Nation[4] in 1999. Throughout her career, she has published a range of articles on related subjects in scholarly journals including Isis, Representations,[5] Configurations,[6] and History of Political Economy.[7] She has also contributed to the Financial Times and The Sunday Telegraph, and has published a number of pieces on the evolution of archive digitization[8] and on open access to scholarship.[9]

Rausing is a senior research fellow at King's College. She holds honorary doctorates from Uppsala University and SOAS.[10] She is also an honorary fellow of the British Academy,[11] the Linnean Society,[12] the Royal Historical Society,[13] The Royal Society of Biology[14] and the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry.[15] She was elected to the Harvard Board of Overseers[16] (2005–2011) and Yad Hanadiv Advisory Committee (2001–2011). She served on the Cambridge Conservation Initiative Advisory Board from 2012 to 2022.[citation needed]

Philanthropy

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Rausing with her husband Peter Baldwin

Lisbet Rausing co-founded the Arcadia Fund[17] in 2001 with her husband, Professor Peter Baldwin. As of March 2022, the Fund has made grant commitments of over $919 million to charities and scholarly institutions globally that preserve cultural heritage and the environment and promote open access.[18] Arcadia-funded projects include the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme at Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities,[19] the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library[20] and Fauna & Flora International's Halcyon Land and Sea fund. They are listed as one of the biggest benefactors to the Wikimedia Foundation[21] and donated $5 million to the Wikimedia endowment in 2017[22] after Baldwin joined its advisory board.[23]

Rausing is a long-term supporter of nature restoration in the Scottish Highlands.[24][25][26]

Rausing and Baldwin also founded Lund Trust. Since 2002, Lund Trust has given more than $77.7 million to charities in the UK and internationally.[27] In 2015, Rausing and Baldwin donated $25 million to Yale University to name the tower in Yale's Humanities Quadrangle after David F. Swensen.[28]

In 2024, Rausing donated £500,000 to the Labour Party.[29] The following year, in the 2025 Birthday Honours, Rausing was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE).[30]

See also

References

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  1. ^ Anna Lisbet Kristina RAUSING - British Government website Companies House
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."About Arcadia - Arcadia". Archived from the original on 15 December 2015. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
  3. ^ The milk of human kindness: Meet the Rausings - website of the British online newspaper The Independent
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Koerner, Lisbet (1999). Linnaeus: Nature and Nation. Harvard: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-09745-2.
  5. ^ "Linnaeus' Floral Transplants." Representations, 47 (1994)
  6. ^ "Women and utility in Enlightenment science" Configurations, 3 (1995)
  7. ^ "Underwriting the Oeconomy: Linnaeus on Nature and Mind." History of Political Economy supplement to volume 35 (2003)
  8. ^ "Do Libraries Dream of Electric Sheep?" Going Digital: Evolutionary and Revolutionary Aspects of Digitization Nobel Symposium 147: Stockholm, 2011) and in Logos, 21(2010) and "Toward a new Alexandria: Imagining the Future of Libraries." The New Republic (12 March 2010)
  9. ^ "Toward a new Alexandria: Imagining the Future of Libraries", opendemocracy.net. Accessed 18 February 2023.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."SOAS Honorary Fellows: Dr Lisbet Rausing". www.soas.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Honorary Fellows - British Academy". Archived from the original on 29 June 2015. Retrieved 16 June 2015.. Accessed 3 December 2015
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Royal Patrons and Honorary Fellows". www.linnean.org. Archived from the original on 5 November 2015. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Royal Historical Society, Fellows, R" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Honorary Fellows L-R". rsb.org.uk. Archived from the original on 7 January 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry website". ksla.se. Retrieved 21 March 2026.
  16. ^ Harvard Board of Overseers, harvard.edu. Accessed 3 December 2015.
  17. ^ Official website (arcadiafund.org.uk) Script error: No such module "webarchive".. Accessed 21 March 2026.
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Arcadia's 2021 annual report".
  19. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Endangered Languages Documentation Programme". www.eldp.net. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
  20. ^ Script error: No such module "webarchive".. Accessed 21 March 2026.
  21. ^ Wikipedia 15 Contributors. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  22. ^ wmf:Resolution:Approval of Endowment funding (Fiscal Year 2016-2017) and matching $5 million gift from Peter Baldwin and Lisbet Rausing
  23. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Peter Baldwin, professor and philanthropist, is appointed to the Wikimedia Endowment Advisory Board". 9 September 2016.
  24. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Swedish heiress and landowner drives mass nature restoration in Highlands". The Scotsman. 18 May 2024. Retrieved 11 November 2025.
  25. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Leake, Jonathan (27 July 2003). "Heiress brings fantasy to glens". www.thetimes.com. Retrieved 11 November 2025.
  26. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Scottish acres up for grabs". The Herald. 6 November 1995. Retrieved 11 November 2025.
  27. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Lund Trust website". Retrieved 12 August 2022.
  28. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Class News: Hall of Graduate Studies tower named for David Swensen, honorary member of the Class of 1964". www.yale64.org. Retrieved 6 January 2026.
  29. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."DonationWatch: Top donors to political parties in United Kingdom for 2024". donation.watch. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
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