Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken is a Dutch-British billionaire businesswoman and the owner of a 25% controlling interest withinside the world's second-biggest brewer, Heineken N.V. She is the richest woman withinside the Netherlands, with a net worth of $16.3 billion as of October 2019, in keeping with the Forbes billionaires list.
Charlene was born on 30 June 1954, the daughter of Freddy Heineken, a Dutch industrialist, an American from a Kentucky family of bourbon whiskey distillers. Charlene Heineken was educated at Rijnlands Lyceum Wassenaar, followed through a law degree from Leiden University.
Charlene Heineken owns a 25% controlling stake in Dutch brewer Heineken, of which she is a director.
Charlene Heineken is married to Michel de Carvalho, a financier and director of Citigroup, whom she met on a ski vacation in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Michel de Carvalho is a member of the supervisory board of Heineken NV. They are living in London with their 5 children.
After the death of her father in 2002, she inherited about £3 billion, making her the wealthiest woman with Dutch citizenship. In 2019, the Sunday Times Rich List rating of the wealthiest humans withinside the UK named her the wealthiest woman and the 7th overall, with an expected fortune of £12 billion.
Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken awarded the Heineken Prizes for Arts and Sciences to biomedical scientist Peter Carmeliet, biologist Paul Hebert, neuroscientist Nancy Kanwisher, historian John McNeill biophysicist Xiaowei Zhuang and visible artist Erik van Lieshout.
The Heineken Prizes are the most prestigious global science prizes of the Netherlands. They are awarded every year. The laureates are selected through juries assembled by the Academy and made from leading Dutch and foreign scientists and scholars.
