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Sigrid Rausing Trust Sigrid rausing trust Continue Swedish philanthropist, anthropologist and publisher Sigrid RausingRausing in 2014Born (1962-01-29) January 29, 1962 (age 58)Lund, Scania, Sweden'Alma materUniversity of YorkUnivers Collegeity LondonOccupationAuthor, publisher, philanthropistSpouse (s)Eric AbrahamParent (s)Hans RausingM'rit RausingRelativesRuben Rausing (paternal grandfather) Hans Christian Rausing (brother) Lisbeth Rausing (sister) Sigrid Maria Elizabeth Rausing (born January 29) She is the founder of the Sigrid Rausing Trust, one of the largest charitable foundations in the United Kingdom and the owner of Granta and Granta Books. Sigrid Rausing is the daughter of Swedish businessman Hans Rausing and his wife Murit Rausing. She has one sister, Lisbeth Rausing, and one brother, Hans Christian Rausing. Her grandfather Ruben Rausing was a co-founder of Swedish packaging company Tetra Pak. She has an MSc in Social Anthropology from University College London in 1987. She continued her doctoral thesis on post-Soviet anthropology, and in 1993-4 she worked in a collective farm in Estonia. In 1997, she received her doctorate in social anthropology from the Department of Social Anthropology at University College London and then an honorary doctorate from the same faculty. Rausing's career, a monograph based on her doctoral thesis, history, memory and identity in post-Soviet Estonia: The End of the Collective Farm, was published by Oxford University Press in 2004. The book was preceded by a number of articles in scientific journals, including Ethnologie Francaise. Everything Is Wonderful, a personal memoir of the year in Estonia exploring the remains of the Estonian Swedish community, was published by Grove Atlantic in the United States and Albert Bonniers Furlag in Sweden in the spring of 2014. (quote needed) Rausing writes random columns for the New Statesman, and her articles on human rights have appeared in the Guardian and Sunday Times. In the spring of 2005, together with her husband Eric Abraham and publisher Philip Gwyn-Jones, she founded Portobello Books, and in the fall of the same year she acquired Granta and his book publishing arm. It is currently the publisher of both Granta and Granta Books, including its Portobello Books imprint. In February 2013, she was named one of the 100 Most Influential Women in the United Kingdom on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour programme. In January 2016, Rausing was a guest on BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs. Her favorite musical choice was Atudes Op. 10 - No. 1 in The Majors Chopin. Other options were: Hallelujah C.D. Lang, Vatican Rag Tom Lehrer, Bird on Leonard's Wire Sister Rosetta goes before us Alison Krauss and Robert Plant, The Last Farewell to The Murders, I Get a Kick From You by Ella Fitzgerald, and Le Cygne (Swan) Camille Saint-Saens. Her book of choice was Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and her luxury item was the British Library. In 1988, the Marine Foundation established a charitable foundation, the Sea Foundation. In 1996, she transferred funds to the Ruben and Elizabeth Rausing Foundation, named after her grandparents; In 2003, the trust was renamed the Sigrid Rausing Trust, and by 2014 it had distributed about 208.3 million euros to human rights organisations around the world. In 2004, she was awarded the International Human Rights Award in the Global Human Rights Defender category. In 2005, she received a special Beacon Award for charity. In 2006, she was awarded the Women's Funding Network's Changing The Face of Charity award. She is a judge of the Per Anger Prize for Human Rights Defenders and an honorary member of the board of the Order of the Tea Spoon, a Swedish organization fighting political and religious extremism. She was a judge at the Amnesty International Media Awards in 2009 and 2010. She serves on the advisory board of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court and is an honorary member of Human Rights Watch's international board. She is a former trustee of the Charleston, Sussex, Museum, which is the former home of Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell. In 2010, she became an honorary member of the London School of Economics. In 2011, she received a Morrell Scholarship from the University of York. In 2012, she was a judge of the Media Awards Censorship Index. In June 2014, she was elected an honorary member of St Anthony's College, Oxford. Rausing is a supporter of Hope, not hate. On 1 December 2018, the Sigrid Rausing Trust began providing a grant of 450,000 pounds over three years to Hope Not Hate. By this point, Hope Not Hate had received a total of 615,000 pounds from the Sigrid Rausing Trust. Rausing's personal life is married to South African TV, film and theatre producer Eric Abraham. They own Aubrey House in Holland Park and the Koinafearn estate in Monadh Lief, in the Highlands of Scotland. Author of the bibliography Rausing, Sigrid (2004). History, memory and identity in post- Soviet Estonia: the end of the collective farm. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-926318-9. Rausing, Sigrid (March 14, 2014). Everything is wonderful: Memories of a collective farm in Estonia. Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated. ISBN 978-0-8021-9281-3. Rausing, Sigrid (2017). Mayhem : memoirs. Hamish Hamilton. ISBN 978-0-241- 25926-9. Editor after the war. Granta; 125. Granta. 2013. ISBN 9781905881710. American wild. Granta; 128. Granta. 2014. ISBN 9781905881819. You remember. Granta; 126. Granta. 2014. Cm. also Rausing Family Links - Sveriges befolkning 1970, CD-ROM, Version 1.04, Sveriges Sl'ktforskarf'rbund (2002). No 1046769 Sigrid Rausing Trust - Ward, Elizabeth (July 2, 2006). Frickotigt wagwal. Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). Received on June 3, 2008. Benjamin, Alison (June 9, 2004). Family fortune. Keeper. London. Received on November 25, 2007. Impossible retour. Dons, assistants and jenhans le nord est de est-est-Estonia in Ethonologie Francaise 1998. Press of the University of France. January 1, 2002. Archive from the original on February 6, 2016. Received on January 29, 2013. Yes to the reform of the European Court of Human Rights. No, to override it. The Guardian (Press Release). Human rights are our best defense against tyrannical rule. The Guardian (Press Release). Belarus: inside the last dictatorship of Europe. The Guardian (Press Release). 'Corrosive' human rights protect us all. The Sunday Times (Press Release). The new statesman various articles. New Statesman (Press Release). Europe must help Georgia and Armenia, otherwise Russia will. The Guardian (Press Release). Edenariam, Aida (June 14, 2006). Books, money and milk boxes. Keeper. London. Received on June 3, 2008. Mark Townsend; David Smith (October 9, 2005). The generous millionaire who saved Granta. Observer. London. Received on November 25, 2007. Opitz, Caspar (December 3, 2005). Vision'r med kulturellt kapital. Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). Received on June 3, 2008. The Food List 2013, Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 4. Sigrid Rausing, Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4, January 2016. Sigrid Rausing Trust. Srt. January 29, 2013. Sigrid Rausing receives the Special Lighthouse Judges Prize (press release). Lighthouse Scholarship Charitable Foundation. March 10, 2005. Received on January 29, 2013. Jury och nominering (Press Release). levandehistoria.se. September 29, 2008. Archive from the original on April 18, 2013. Teskedsordens hedersledamot Sigrid Rausing i report i Svenska Dagbladet. Teskedden. January 16, 2012. Amnesty International Media Awards 2009. The Guardian (Press Release). June 3, 2009. Amnesty International Media Awards 2010 (Press Release). Amnesty International. May 5, 2010. Coalition for the International Criminal Court (press release). coalitionfortheicc.org archive from the original on May 21, 2014. The board of directors. Human Rights Watch. Staff and trustees. charleston.org.uk archive from the original dated January 3, 2013. Honorary member of the LSE. www2.lse.ac.uk/. HOPE Not Hate - Grant recipients - Welcome to SRT. www.sigrid-rausing-trust.org received on April 1, 2019. Profile of Eric Abraham, The Guardian, London, undated by Eric Abraham. Received on January 24, 2016. Dokunts, Keith (April 10, 2008). The troubled heir to Tetra Pak's fortune of 5 billion euros. London Evening Standard. Sigrid external links The Trust Extracted Extracted Sigrid Rausing Trust (SRT) is a British grant fund founded in 1995 to support human rights around the world. Since then, the Foundation has given about 250 million euros to human rights organizations around the world. Our guidelines: we recognize the value of core funding; We look at good and effective leadership; We are flexible and responsive to needs and opportunities. We value clarity and brevity in applications and reports. we hope to establish a long-term relationship with grantees. We are currently looking for an exceptional person to join our team as our next EXECUTIVE director. By reporting to Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Sigrid Rausing, you will be responsible for all the grants, programs and activities of the Foundation, as well as for supporting the future growth and impact of the Fund. You will manage a team of approximately ten staff in London and will work closely with key stakeholders, including the Board of Trustees, Grantees and our colleagues in the human rights arena, to ensure productive partnerships. The Sigrid Rausing Trust is a British grant fund founded in 1995 by Sigrid Rausing to support human rights around the world. Since then, the Foundation has given about 299 million euros to human rights organizations around the world. Until 2010, the Trust had an open application system. They agreed, however, that only a small proportion of applications through the system were related to human rights. Of these, they end up funding only a small fraction. They therefore decided not to accept the unsolicited applications any longer. Instead, they identify potential new grantees based on recommendations and fieldwork. See more sigrid rausing trust jobs.
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