André Hoffmann (born 31 May 1958) is a Swiss billionaire businessman, environmentalist and philanthropist.
The great-grandson of Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche who founded the drug company Roche Holding in 1896,[1] he currently is the vice-chairman of the company.[2] As of November 2020, his estimated net worth is US$5.71 billion[3]
As a philanthropist, he has been an advocate for sustainability and environmental protection,[4] serving as International Vice-president of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) from 2007 to 2017.[5] He has also been on the boards of Wetlands International, the global non-profit organisation dedicated to the conservation and restoration of wetland ecosystems.
Born on 31 May 1958 in Basel, Switzerland,[6] André Hoffmann is the son of Daria Hoffmann-Razumovsky and Luc Hoffmann, a conservationist and philanthropist.[7]
An early investor in the Maryland-based start-up Inovalon, which manages and analyses healthcare data,[9] and is a non-executive director.[8]
He is a member of the Club of Rome, a member of the board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum,[13] a member the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in San Francisco, and a member of the board of SystemIQ, a company that intends to “drive positive disruption in economic systems”.[14]
André Hoffmann is an environmentalist,[15] involved in a number of nonprofit organizations and initiatives related to sustainability and nature conservation.
In 1998, he joined the WWF and served as vice-president of the organization from 2007 to 2017.[16]
Since 2010, he has been president of the MAVA Foundation, a major foundation in the field of nature preservation.[17]
In 2016, he becomes President of Fondation Tour du Valat, a French research institute dedicated to Mediterranean wetland conservation.[18]
In August 2018, Hoffmann and his wife Rosalie made a €40 million commitment to INSEAD, establishing the Hoffmann Global Institute for Business and Society.[19] He is currently the chairman of its advisory board.[20]
Hoffmann is married to Rosalie Coombe-Tennant[25] and has four children.
He owns several vineyards. In 2017, he purchased the domain Jayer Gilles in Burgundy, which became Hoffmann Jayer, with an emphasis on environment and nature preservation.[26] He also owns Domain Pierre Latine in Yvorne, Switzerland[27] and domain Alpamanta in Argentina.[28]
