Lynn Forester de Rothschild

Founding and Managing Partner, Inclusive Capital Partners;

Lynn Forester de Rothschild is a Founding and Managing Partner and member of the Management Committee of Inclusive Capital Partners, an investment manager that seeks positively differentiated returns by deploying its governance skills and value investment discipline to improve environmental and societal performance of the business’ in which it invests.

Until July 2020, she was Chief Executive of E.L. Rothschild LLC, a family office with interests in private companies, public markets and real estate. She is also the Founder of the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism and the Council for Inclusive Capitalism, each a not-for-profit organization that develops initiatives with global CEOs, government and civil society leaders to catalyze actions that transform capitalism and make our economies and societies more inclusive, dynamic, sustainable and trusted.

Since 2000, Forester de Rothschild has been a member of the Board of Directors and Nominating & Governance Committee of The Estee Lauder Companies. She previously served on the boards of The Economist Group, Gulfstream, General Instruments, Bronfman-Rothschild and Weather Central.

As part of her charity work, Forester de Rothschild also serves on the board of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, advisory board of Focusing Capital on the Long Term (FCLTGlobal), McCain Institute for International Leadership and the ERANDA Rothschild Foundation.  She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Chatham House.  Previously, she served as a member of the National Information Infrastructure Advisory Committee and the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board under President Clinton, and as a member of the United Nations Advisory Committee on Inclusive Financial Services. 

Forester de Rothschild is often a featured speaker at global forums and corporate and university events, including the United Nations, World Bank, G20 Investor Forum, OECD, Bloomberg New Economy Forum, Future Investment Initiative, Aspen Ideas Festival, University of Oxford, Tsinghua University, and Peking University.  She has also published in Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Guardian. In 2007, Forester de Rothschild was awarded the Commendatore Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana. She graduated magna cum laude and beta kappa from Pomona College in Claremont, California and from Columbia University School of Law, with a Juris Doctor degree with honors as Harlen Fiske Stone Scholar.