Louise Blouin

Louise Blouin
Born Louise Thérèse Blouin
1958/1959 (age 56–57)[1]
Montreal, Canada
Residence Switzerland[2]
Occupation

Founder and chairman, Louise Blouin Media

Founder and chairman, Louise T. Blouin Foundation
Spouse(s) David MacDonald Stewart (divorced)
John MacBain

Louise Thérèse Blouin (born 1958/59) is a Canadian magazine publisher. She is the founder and chairman of Louise Blouin Media.

Biography

In the early 1980s, Blouin married David MacDonald Stewart, a member of the Canadian MacDonald tobacco family. The marriage was annulled within a year.[1]

Blouin later married John MacBain and the couple acquired Auto Hebdo, a classified car trading magazine, in 1987. The business grew into Trader Classified Media.[3] She later became CEO of the London auction house Phillips de Pury, but resigned after a year. She started Louise Blouin Media in 2003, and moved into art publications.

In 2005 Louise Blouin started the Louise T. Blouin Foundation, an international organisation for creativity and the arts.[4] In October 2006 the foundation opened the Louise T. Blouin Institute in Shepherd's Bush in west London, with a large gallery and smaller spaces for seminars and lectures. The first exhibition was of light works by James Turrell.[1]

In 2016, her name appeared in the Panama Papers. She commented, "I didn’t even know. . . It is not relevant. It is not because you are in the Panama list that you did something wrong. You are the one informing me about that. You can’t assume everyone with a BVI [company] has done something wrong".[2][5]

In 1993 Blouin was one of approximately 200 "Global Leaders of Tomorrow" listed by the World Economic Forum, a Swiss foundation.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Hampson, Sarah (8 October 2006). "My Dream? The World". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  2. 1 2 "One of Canada's richest women, Louise Blouin in Panama Papers | Metro News". Metronews.ca. Retrieved 2016-04-09.
  3. ↑ Porter, Andrew (14 March 2004). "Art Publisher's Ambition is a Study in Revenge". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  4. ↑ Felicia R. Lee (2 May 2005). A New Arts Foundation with a Focus on Creativity. New York Times.
  5. ↑ "Louise Blouin: Tax haven art maven - Toronto Star Touch". Startouch.thestar.com. Retrieved 2016-04-09.
  6. ↑ GLT Class 1993. Geneva: World Economic Forum. Accessed April 2015.
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