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'''Anne Dias-Griffin''' is a [[money manager]] and [[philanthropist]]. She is the founder and Managing Partner of the [[Chicago]]-based Aragon Global Management, a hedge fund that focuses on global equities.<ref name="ccb">{{cite web| last = Crains| first = editorial staff| title = Escape Focus 40 under 40, 2006 | publisher = [[Crain Communications Inc|Crain's]] | url = http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20061019/PAGES/2086/40-under-40-2006# | date = November 5, 2006}}</ref> She also founded and is the co-President of the Anne and Kenneth Griffin Foundation.<ref name="gfo">{{Cite news| url =http://griffin-foundation.org/|title= The Kenneth and Anne Griffin Foundation|publisher= The Kenneth and Anne Griffin Foundation|accessdate = July 26, 2014}}</ref>


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==Early life and Education==
'''Anne Dias-Griffin''' (born 1971 in [[France]]) is a [[French people|French]] [[hedge fund]] manager. Dias-Griffin runs [[Chicago]]-based ''Aragon Global Management'', a $100 million fund focusing on global equities.<ref>http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-anne-dias-griffin-20130107,0,65566.photo</ref><ref>http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2007/sep/09/features.woman5</ref><ref name=one>{{cite web| title = Roundtable Discussion with Female Hedge Fund Managers | date = 2004-12-01 | url =http://www.100womeninhedgefunds.org/events/100WHF1204.pdf | accessdate = 2006-08-06 }}</ref>
Dias Griffin was born in [[France]] in 1970.<ref>{{Cite news| url =http://www.businessinsider.com/hedge-fund-wives-2010-8?op=1#!I0cTY|title= The Hottest Hedge Fund Wives On Wall Street|author=Courtney Comstock and Isabelle Schafer |publisher= [[Business Insider]]|date = May 9, 2011}}</ref> She graduated [[Summa Cum Laude]] and [[Phi Beta Kappa]] from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in 1992, where she once worked as an overnight security guard to pay for tuition.<ref>{{Cite news| url =http://nymag.com/news/features/2007/hedgefunds/30343/|title= Who Gets to Marry a Billionaire?|author=Tim Murphy |publisher= [[New York Magazine]]|date = October 24, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news| url =http://www.thechicagocouncil.org/files/Event/FY14_Events/09_September_2013/Good_Governance__Lighten_Up_or_Tighten_Up_.aspx |title= Good Governance: Lighten Up or Tighten Up??|author=Nicolas Berggruen|publisher= [[Chicago Council on Global Affairs]]|date = September 10, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news| url =http://jcw.georgetown.edu/archive/2012/acknowledgements.html |title= Chicago John Carroll Weekend: Acknowledgements |publisher= [[Georgetown University]]|date = April 26, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news| url =http://www.suntimes.com/news/sneed/28851360-452/sneed-timing-of-divorce-filing-stunned-billionaire-ken-griffins-wife.html#.U9WuxvldUQN|title= Sneed: Timing of divorce filing stuns billionaire Ken Griffin’s wife|author=Michael Sneed|publisher= [[Chicago Sun-Times]]|date = July 24, 2014}}</ref> She received an [[MBA]] from Harvard Business School in 1997.<ref>{{Cite news| url =http://research.chicagobooth.edu/igm/partners/index.aspx |title= Our Patrons|publisher= [[University of Chicago Booth School of Business]]|accessdate = July 27, 2014}}</ref>


To further finance her undergraduate education, Dias Griffin worked full-time during college, on both domestic and foreign policy issues.<ref name="more">{{cite book |last= Hanson|first=Janet|date=March 13, 2006 |title=More Than 85 Broads|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=em_BR6YxyioC&q=85+broads&dq=85+broads&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KWNqU8WTGOm6yAHT1oCYDg&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAQ|location= |publisher=[[McGraw Hill Professional]] |page= |isbn=9780071423687 |accessdate=July 27, 2014 }}</ref> She was a research assistant to constitutional law scholar [[Walter Berns]], the Olin Professor of Government at Georgetown University, and helped research a book on the [[Electoral College]].<ref name ="vote">{{cite book |last= Berns|first=Walter|date=1983|title=After the People Vote |url=http://books.google.com/books/about/After_the_people_vote.html?id=yGwmAAAAMAAJ |location= |publisher=[[American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research]] |page= |isbn=9780844735405 |accessdate=July 26, 2014 }}</ref> She also assisted Patrick J. Glynn, resident scholar at the [[American Enterprise Institute]] for Public Policy Research, on his book about the history of the [[Cold War]].<ref name="close">{{cite book |last= Glynn|first=Patrick|date=1992|title=Closing Pandora's Box|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=bC-SAAAAMAAJ&q=Closing+Pandora's+Box:+Arms+Race,+Arms+Control+and+the+History+of+the+Cold+War&dq=Closing+Pandora's+Box:+Arms+Race,+Arms+Control+and+the+History+of+the+Cold+War&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lF1qU5aMBaPhygH184HoCg&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA|location= |publisher=[[Basic Books]] |page= |isbn=9780465098095 |accessdate=July 28, 2014 }}</ref>
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==Early life==

Dias-Griffin was born in [[France]]. She graduated [[Phi Beta Kappa]]<ref>http://www.thechicagocouncil.org/files/Event/FY14_Events/09_September_2013/Good_Governance__Lighten_Up_or_Tighten_Up_.aspx</ref> from the [[Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service|Georgetown University School of Foreign Service]] in 1992<ref>http://jcw.georgetown.edu/archive/2012/acknowledgements.html</ref> and then went to [[Harvard Business School]] where she obtained her [[MBA]] in 1997.<ref>https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx?num=50</ref><ref>http://research.chicagobooth.edu/igm/partners/index.aspx</ref>
In 1991, she was the [[Brussels]] Representative for the [[American Electronics Association]], and focused on European policy issues. She also worked on European Community and foreign policy issues as an intern at the [[German Parliament]] in [[Bonn]] and [[Berlin]] during the summer of 1992.<ref name="more"/>

Ms. Dias Griffin has written on foreign policy issues for the [[Financial Times]] where she wrote about [[United States]] aid to [[India]] and loans to help rain forest conservation in [[Latin America]].<ref>{{Cite news| url =http://upstart.bizjournals.com/executives/features/2007/04/16/Opening-Up-the-Citadel.html?page=all|title= Opening Up the Citadel|author=Sheelah Kolhatkar|publisher= Upstart Business Journal|date = April 16, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news| url =http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/07/24/kenneth-griffin-files-for-divorce-from-anne-dias-griffin/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0|title= A Divorce That Thrusts Ken Griffin and Anne Dias Griffin Into the Spotlight|author=Michael J. De La Merced and Alexandra Stevenson|publisher= [[The New York Times]]|date = July 24, 2014}}</ref>


==Investment Career==
==Investment Career==
After receiving her degree from Georgetown University, Dias Griffin worked as a [[financial analyst]] in the [[Investment Banking]] department of [[Goldman Sachs]] in [[London]] and [[New York]] and at [[Fidelity Worldwide Investment|Fidelity Investments Limited]] in London.<ref name="abtop">{{Cite news| url = http://www.americanbanker.com/magazine/119_10/anne-dias-griffin-1002114-1.html|title= The Top 25 Nonbank Women in Finance: #19 Anne Dias Griffin |author=Anthony Malakian |publisher= [[American Banker]] |date = October 1, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news| url = http://www.forbes.com/2007/11/14/google-page-southworth-biz-cx_db_1114billiewives.html|title= Billionaire Wives Club Gets New Member|author=Forbes.com staff |publisher= [[Forbes]] |date = November 14, 2007}}</ref> She joined [[Soros Fund Management]] as an analyst after obtaining her MBA and was promoted to portfolio manager one year later.<ref>{{cite web| last = Crains| first = editorial staff| title = Escape Focus 40 under 40, 2006 | publisher = [[Crain Communications Inc|Crain's]] | url = http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20061019/PAGES/2086/40-under-40-2006# | accessdate = November 5, 2006}}</ref> At Soros, she specialized in the retail and financial services industry and managed a [[Long/short equity|long/short]] portfolio of [[financial services]] stocks. Dias Griffin then joined [[Connecticut]]-based Viking Global Investors as an analyst, focusing on global media and internet stocks.<ref>{{Cite news| url = http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-06-02/business/ct-biz-0603-confidential-griffin-20120602_1_julian-robertson-digital-media-aragon-global-management|title= Chicago Confidential: Anne Dias Griffin to launch media company, reform-minded news site|author= Melissa Harris |publisher= [[Chicago Tribune ]] |date = June 02, 2012}}</ref>
After receiving her degree from Georgetown University, Dias Griffin worked as a [[financial analyst]] in the [[Investment Banking]] department of [[Goldman Sachs]] in [[London]] and [[New York]] and at [[Fidelity Worldwide Investment|Fidelity Investments Limited]] in London.<ref name="abtop">{{Cite news| url = http://www.americanbanker.com/magazine/119_10/anne-dias-griffin-1002114-1.html|title= The Top 25 Nonbank Women in Finance: #19 Anne Dias Griffin |author=Anthony Malakian |publisher= [[American Banker]] |date = October 1, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news| url = http://www.forbes.com/2007/11/14/google-page-southworth-biz-cx_db_1114billiewives.html|title= Billionaire Wives Club Gets New Member|author=Forbes.com staff |publisher= [[Forbes]] |date = November 14, 2007}}</ref> She joined [[Soros Fund Management]] as an analyst after obtaining her MBA and was promoted to portfolio manager one year later.<ref name="ccb"/> At Soros, she specialized in the retail and financial services industry and managed a [[Long/short equity|long/short]] portfolio of [[financial services]] stocks. Dias Griffin then joined [[Connecticut]]-based Viking Global Investors as an analyst, focusing on global media and internet stocks.<ref>{{Cite news| url = http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-06-02/business/ct-biz-0603-confidential-griffin-20120602_1_julian-robertson-digital-media-aragon-global-management|title= Chicago Confidential: Anne Dias Griffin to launch media company, reform-minded news site|author= Melissa Harris |publisher= [[Chicago Tribune ]] |date = June 02, 2012}}</ref>


Dias Griffin started her own fund, Aragon Global Management, LLC in New York City in 2001 with start-up capital from hedge fund titan [[Julian Robertson]] of [[Tiger Management]]. Aragon invests in media, technology, and telecommunications companies around the world; at its peak managed close to $200 million in assets.<ref>{{Cite news| url = http://www.multihousingnews.com/news/todays-deals-aragon-completes-kansas-city-acquisition-lees-summit-mo-aragon-holdings-has-purchased-the-fairways-at-lakewood-a-274-unit-community-located-in-lees-summit/1004055605.html|title= TODAY'S DEALS: Aragon Completes Kansas City Acquisition |publisher= [[Multi-Housing News]] |date = May 9, 2012}}</ref> At the end of 2009, Dias Griffin returned capital from outside investors to focus on her family and the Kenneth and Anne Griffin Foundation, and now runs Aragon as a family office.<ref>{{Cite news| url = http://www.hedgefundintelligence.com/Article/2579136/Doing-more-with-less.html|title= Doing more with less|author= Danielle Beurteaux|publisher= HedgeFund Intelligence|date = June 1, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news| url = http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-ken-griffin-divorce-20140723,0,3362001.story|title= Hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin files for divorce |author= Becky Yerak|publisher= [[Chicago Tribune]]|date = July 24, 2014}}</ref>
Dias Griffin started her own fund, Aragon Global Management, LLC in New York City in 2001 with start-up capital from hedge fund titan [[Julian Robertson]] of [[Tiger Management]]. Aragon invests in media, technology, and telecommunications companies around the world; at its peak managed close to $200 million in assets.<ref>{{Cite news| url = http://www.multihousingnews.com/news/todays-deals-aragon-completes-kansas-city-acquisition-lees-summit-mo-aragon-holdings-has-purchased-the-fairways-at-lakewood-a-274-unit-community-located-in-lees-summit/1004055605.html|title= TODAY'S DEALS: Aragon Completes Kansas City Acquisition |publisher= [[Multi-Housing News]] |date = May 9, 2012}}</ref> At the end of 2009, Dias Griffin returned capital from outside investors to focus on her family and the Kenneth and Anne Griffin Foundation, and now runs Aragon as a family office.<ref name="hfi"/><ref>{{Cite news| url = http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-ken-griffin-divorce-20140723,0,3362001.story|title= Hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin files for divorce |author= Becky Yerak|publisher= [[Chicago Tribune]]|date = July 24, 2014}}</ref>


==Civic and cultural life==
==Civic and cultural life==
Dias Griffin is the co-President of the Kenneth and Anne Griffin Foundation, which she co-founded in 2009.<ref>{{Cite news| url =http://thefundchicago.org/who-we-are/board-of-directors/kenneth-c-griffin/|title= Kenneth C. Griffin|publisher= The Fund Chicago Public Education |accessdate = July 25, 2014}}</ref> The foundation focuses on early childhood education, the arts, and medical research, with particular emphasis on the health of women and children.<ref>{{Cite news| url =http://griffin-foundation.org/|title= The Kenneth and Anne Griffin Foundation|publisher= The Kenneth and Anne Griffin Foundation|accessdate = July 26, 2014}}</ref> Through this platform, the Griffins have pledged more than $100 million to leading innovators and entrepreneurs whose initiatives are bringing measurable and sustainable change to the community.<ref>{{Cite news| url =http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-20/harvard-gets-150-million-from-citadel-s-griffin-for-student-aid.html|title= Citadel’s Griffin Gives Harvard $150 Million for Student Aid |publisher= [[Bloomberg BusinessWeek]]|author=John Lauerman |date = February 20, 2014}}</ref> Dias Griffin also organizes a national conference on early childhood education every year in Chicago for teachers, academic researchers and public policy experts.<ref>{{Cite news| url =http://griffin-foundation.org/areas/frontiers-in-education-2012.html|title= 2012 Frontiers in Education Conference |publisher= The Kenneth and Anne Griffin Foundation|accessdate = July 26, 2014}}</ref>
Dias Griffin is the co-President of the Kenneth and Anne Griffin Foundation, which she co-founded in 2009.<ref>{{Cite news| url =http://thefundchicago.org/who-we-are/board-of-directors/kenneth-c-griffin/|title= Kenneth C. Griffin|publisher= The Fund Chicago Public Education |accessdate = July 25, 2014}}</ref> The foundation focuses on early childhood education, the arts, and medical research, with particular emphasis on the health of women and children.<ref name="gfo"/> Through this platform, the Griffins have pledged more than $100 million to leading innovators and entrepreneurs whose initiatives are bringing measurable and sustainable change to the community.<ref>{{Cite news| url =http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-20/harvard-gets-150-million-from-citadel-s-griffin-for-student-aid.html|title= Citadel’s Griffin Gives Harvard $150 Million for Student Aid |publisher= [[Bloomberg BusinessWeek]]|author=John Lauerman |date = February 20, 2014}}</ref> Dias Griffin also organizes a national conference on early childhood education every year in Chicago for teachers, academic researchers and public policy experts.<ref>{{Cite news| url =http://griffin-foundation.org/areas/frontiers-in-education-2012.html|title= 2012 Frontiers in Education Conference |publisher= The Kenneth and Anne Griffin Foundation|accessdate = July 26, 2014}}</ref>


In 2006, Dias Griffin and her husband gave $19 million to the [[Art Institute of Chicago]], and in 2009, the Griffin’s donated $10 million to establish the Griffin Early Childhood Center.<ref>{{Cite news| url =http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2007/07/26/citadels-griffin-at-the-art-worlds-gates/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=1&|title= Citadel’s Griffin at the Art World’s Gates|publisher= [[The New York Times]]|author=Dealbook|date = July 26, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news| url =http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-23/chicago-economist-s-crazy-idea-for-education-wins-ken-griffin-s-backing.html |title= Chicago Economist’s ‘Crazy Idea’ Wins Ken Griffin’s Backing |publisher= [[Bloomberg BusinessWeek]]|author=Oliver Staley|date = February 23, 2011}}</ref> In 2010, they donated $16 million to the [[Lurie Children's Hospital| Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago]] of Chicago at [[Northwestern University]] to create an Emergency Care Center, which opened in 2012.<ref>{{Cite news| url =http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-01-07/health/chi-thu-griffin-jan07_1_new-hospital-kenneth-griffin-children-s-memorial-hospital |title= Kenneth and Anne Griffin give $16 million to Children's Memorial Hospital |publisher= [[Chicago Tribune]]|author=Melissa Harris and Bruce Japsen |date =January 07, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news| url =http://foundation.luriechildrens.org/site/PageServer?pagename=oh_do_griffin|title= Griffins’ gift will enhance emergency care in new hospital |publisher= [[Lurie Children's Hospital]] |author=Melissa Harris and Bruce Japsen |accessdate =July 26, 2014}}</ref>
In 2006, Dias Griffin and her husband gave $19 million to the [[Art Institute of Chicago]], and in 2009, the Griffin’s donated $10 million to establish the Griffin Early Childhood Center.<ref>{{Cite news| url =http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2007/07/26/citadels-griffin-at-the-art-worlds-gates/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=1&|title= Citadel’s Griffin at the Art World’s Gates|publisher= [[The New York Times]]|author=Dealbook|date = July 26, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news| url =http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-23/chicago-economist-s-crazy-idea-for-education-wins-ken-griffin-s-backing.html |title= Chicago Economist’s ‘Crazy Idea’ Wins Ken Griffin’s Backing |publisher= [[Bloomberg BusinessWeek]]|author=Oliver Staley|date = February 23, 2011}}</ref> In 2010, they donated $16 million to the [[Lurie Children's Hospital| Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago]] of Chicago at [[Northwestern University]] to create an Emergency Care Center, which opened in 2012.<ref>{{Cite news| url =http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-01-07/health/chi-thu-griffin-jan07_1_new-hospital-kenneth-griffin-children-s-memorial-hospital |title= Kenneth and Anne Griffin give $16 million to Children's Memorial Hospital |publisher= [[Chicago Tribune]]|author=Melissa Harris and Bruce Japsen |date =January 07, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news| url =http://foundation.luriechildrens.org/site/PageServer?pagename=oh_do_griffin|title= Griffins’ gift will enhance emergency care in new hospital |publisher= [[Lurie Children's Hospital]] |author=Melissa Harris and Bruce Japsen |accessdate =July 26, 2014}}</ref>
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==Published Papers==
==Published Papers==
*Moss, David, ''Anne Dias'', and Bertrand O. Stephann. '''The French Pension System: On the Verge of Retirement?''' Harvard Business School Case 798-032.*<ref name="DavidMoss">{{cite web | title = David A. Moss | work = Publications | publisher = Harvard Business School | year = 2006 | url = http://dor.hbs.edu/fit/fi_redirect.jhtml?facInfo=pub&facEmId=dmoss | accessdate = 2006-10-15 | archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20061009115137/http://dor.hbs.edu/fit/fi_redirect.jhtml?facInfo=pub&facEmId=dmoss| archivedate= 9 October 2006 <!--DASHBot-->| deadurl= no}}</ref>
*Moss, David, ''Anne Dias'', and Bertrand O. Stephann. The French Pension System: On the Verge of Retirement?, Harvard Business School Case 798-032.<ref name="DavidMoss">{{cite web | title = David A. Moss | work = Publications | publisher = [[Harvard Business School]] | year = 2006 | url = http://dor.hbs.edu/fit/fi_redirect.jhtml?facInfo=pub&facEmId=dmoss | accessdate = 2006-10-15 | archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20061009115137/http://dor.hbs.edu/fit/fi_redirect.jhtml?facInfo=pub&facEmId=dmoss| archivedate= 9 October 2006 <!--DASHBot-->| deadurl= no}}</ref>
*Research Assistant, Walter Berns, ed. After the People Vote: A Guide to the Electoral College, Second edition. (Washington: AEI Press, 1992)<ref name ="vote"/>
*Research Assistant, Patrick J. Glynn, Closing Pandora’s Box: Arms Races, Arms Control and a History of the Cold War, (New Republic Books, 1992)<ref name="close"/>


==References==
==References==
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Anne Dias-Griffin
Born1970
NationalityUS
Alma materGeorgetown University School of Foreign Service
Harvard Business School
Occupation(s)Hedge fund manager
President of Family Foundation[1]
SpouseKenneth C. Griffin

Anne Dias-Griffin is a money manager and philanthropist. She is the founder and Managing Partner of the Chicago-based Aragon Global Management, a hedge fund that focuses on global equities.[2] She also founded and is the co-President of the Anne and Kenneth Griffin Foundation.[3]

Early life and Education

Dias Griffin was born in France in 1970.[4] She graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in 1992, where she once worked as an overnight security guard to pay for tuition.[5][6][7][8] She received an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1997.[9]

To further finance her undergraduate education, Dias Griffin worked full-time during college, on both domestic and foreign policy issues.[10] She was a research assistant to constitutional law scholar Walter Berns, the Olin Professor of Government at Georgetown University, and helped research a book on the Electoral College.[11] She also assisted Patrick J. Glynn, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, on his book about the history of the Cold War.[12]

In 1991, she was the Brussels Representative for the American Electronics Association, and focused on European policy issues. She also worked on European Community and foreign policy issues as an intern at the German Parliament in Bonn and Berlin during the summer of 1992.[10]

Ms. Dias Griffin has written on foreign policy issues for the Financial Times where she wrote about United States aid to India and loans to help rain forest conservation in Latin America.[13][14]

Investment Career

After receiving her degree from Georgetown University, Dias Griffin worked as a financial analyst in the Investment Banking department of Goldman Sachs in London and New York and at Fidelity Investments Limited in London.[15][16] She joined Soros Fund Management as an analyst after obtaining her MBA and was promoted to portfolio manager one year later.[2] At Soros, she specialized in the retail and financial services industry and managed a long/short portfolio of financial services stocks. Dias Griffin then joined Connecticut-based Viking Global Investors as an analyst, focusing on global media and internet stocks.[17]

Dias Griffin started her own fund, Aragon Global Management, LLC in New York City in 2001 with start-up capital from hedge fund titan Julian Robertson of Tiger Management. Aragon invests in media, technology, and telecommunications companies around the world; at its peak managed close to $200 million in assets.[18] At the end of 2009, Dias Griffin returned capital from outside investors to focus on her family and the Kenneth and Anne Griffin Foundation, and now runs Aragon as a family office.[1][19]

Civic and cultural life

Dias Griffin is the co-President of the Kenneth and Anne Griffin Foundation, which she co-founded in 2009.[20] The foundation focuses on early childhood education, the arts, and medical research, with particular emphasis on the health of women and children.[3] Through this platform, the Griffins have pledged more than $100 million to leading innovators and entrepreneurs whose initiatives are bringing measurable and sustainable change to the community.[21] Dias Griffin also organizes a national conference on early childhood education every year in Chicago for teachers, academic researchers and public policy experts.[22]

In 2006, Dias Griffin and her husband gave $19 million to the Art Institute of Chicago, and in 2009, the Griffin’s donated $10 million to establish the Griffin Early Childhood Center.[23][24] In 2010, they donated $16 million to the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago of Chicago at Northwestern University to create an Emergency Care Center, which opened in 2012.[25][26]

Personal

Dias Griffin married hedge fund manager, Ken Griffin, in 2003. On July 23, 2014, Griffin filed for divorce citing “irreconcilable differences”. The couple has three children.[27]

Boards

Dias Griffin is a Director of Harvard Business School and the Museum of Modern Art, and a Trustee of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the Civic Federation of Chicago.[28][29] Dias Griffin is a former trustee of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, where she headed the Investment Committee.[30] She was also a Trustee of the Children’s Memorial Medical Center and Foundation which is part of the Lurie Children’s Hospital at Northwestern University.[31] Dias Griffin is a former director of Friends of Island Academy (FOIA).[32] Dias is also on the Advisory Board of WomenOnCall.org.[33]

Awards

  • The Hedge Fund Journal, “50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds”, 2010[34]
  • Harvard Club of Chicago, “Annual Alumni Award”, 2010[35]
  • U.S. Banker, “The 25 Most Powerful Women in Banking; Non-Bank Women in Finance”, Award recipient in 2007, 2008, 2009[36][37][15]
  • Trader Monthly Magazine, “Wonder Women”, 2008[38]
  • Crain’s Chicago Business, “40 Under 40”, 2006[39]
  • Institutional Investor, “20 Rising Stars of Hedge Funds”, 2006[40]

Published Papers

  • Moss, David, Anne Dias, and Bertrand O. Stephann. The French Pension System: On the Verge of Retirement?, Harvard Business School Case 798-032.[41]
  • Research Assistant, Walter Berns, ed. After the People Vote: A Guide to the Electoral College, Second edition. (Washington: AEI Press, 1992)[11]
  • Research Assistant, Patrick J. Glynn, Closing Pandora’s Box: Arms Races, Arms Control and a History of the Cold War, (New Republic Books, 1992)[12]

References

  1. ^ a b Danielle Beurteaux (June 1, 2010). "Doing more with less". HedgeFund Intelligence.
  2. ^ a b Crains, editorial staff (November 5, 2006). "Escape Focus 40 under 40, 2006". Crain's.
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