Lisbet Rausing

Lisbet Rausing is the eldest daughter of Hans Rausing and his wife Märit Rausing. She has one sister, Sigrid Rausing, and one brother, Hans Kristian Rausing. Her grandfather, Ruben Rausing, was co-founder of the Swedish packaging company Tetra Pak.

Rausing studied History at the University of California, Berkeley (B.A., summa cum laude 1984) and completed an M.A. (1987) and Ph.D. (1993) in History at Harvard University.

Harvard University Press published Rausing's scholarly biography of Carl Linnaeus, Linnaeus: Nature and Nation{{cite book |last=Koerner |first=Lisbet |authorlink=Lisbet Rausing |title=Linnaeus: Nature and Nation |year=1999 |publisher=Harvard University Press |location=Harvard |isbn=978-0-674-09745-2 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/linnaeusnaturena00koer_0 }} in 1999. Throughout her career she has published a range of articles on related subjects in scholarly journals including Isis, Representations,"Linnaeus' Floral Transplants." Representations, 47 (1994) Configurations,"Women and utility in Enlightenment science" Configurations, 3 (1995) and History of Political Economy."Underwriting the Oeconomy: Linnaeus on Nature and Mind." History of Political Economy supplement to volume 35 (2003) She has also contributed to the Financial Times and The Sunday Telegraph, and has published a number of pieces on the evolution of archive digitization"Do Libraries Dream of Electric Sheep?" Going Digital: Evolutionary and Revolutionary Aspects of Digitization Nobel Symposium 147: Stockholm, 2011) and in Logos, 21(2010) and "Toward a new Alexandria: Imagining the Future of Libraries." The New Republic (12 March 2010) and on open access to scholarship."Toward a new Alexandria: Imagining the Future of Libraries." The New Republic 12 March 2010 see also https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/toward-new-alexandria/ accessed 18 February 2023

Rausing is a senior research fellow at King's College. She holds honorary doctorates from Uppsala University and SOAS.{{cite web |url=https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/fellows/dr-lisbet-rausing/ |title=SOAS Honorary Fellows: Dr Lisbet Rausing |website=www.soas.ac.uk |access-date=3 December 2015}} She is also an honorary fellow of the British Academy,{{cite web |url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/directory/hon.cfm |title=Honorary Fellows - British Academy |accessdate=2015-06-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150629204423/http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/directory/hon.cfm |archivedate=2015-06-29 }} accessed 03 December 2015 the Linnean Society,{{cite web |url=http://www.linnean.org/fellows/Royal+Patrons+and+Honorary+Fellows |title=Royal Patrons and Honorary Fellows |website=www.linnean.org |access-date=3 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151105083101/http://www.linnean.org/fellows/Royal+Patrons+and+Honorary+Fellows|archive-date=2015-11-05}} the Royal Historical Society,{{cite web |url=http://5hm1h4aktue2uejbs1hsqt31.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/RHS-Fellows-R.pdf |title=Royal Historical Society, Fellows, R|accessdate=2015-12-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222154718/http://5hm1h4aktue2uejbs1hsqt31.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/RHS-Fellows-R.pdf |archivedate=2015-12-22 }} accessed 03 December 2015 The Royal Society of Biology{{cite web |url=http://www.rsb.org.uk/membership/individual-membership/fellowship-frsb/honorary-fellows/l-r |title=Honorary Fellows L-R |website=www.rsb.org.uk |access-date=3 December 2015}} and the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry.{{cite web|url=http://www.ksla.se/en/|title=KSLA in English|publisher=}} She was elected to the Harvard Board of Overseershttp://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2005/06.16/03-overseers.html accessed 03.December 2015 (2005–2011) and Yad Hanadiv Advisory Committee (2001–2011). She served on the Cambridge Conservation Initiative Advisory Board from 2012 to 2022.

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Lisbet Rausing co-founded the Arcadia Fund[http://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/content/default.asp arcadiafund.org.uk] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100225102633/http://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/content/default.asp |date=2010-02-25 }} in 2001 with her husband Professor Peter Baldwin. As of March 2022, the Fund has made grant commitments of over $919 million to charities and scholarly institutions globally that preserve cultural heritage and the environment and promote open access.{{cite web|url=https://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/reports/annual-report-2021|title=Arcadia's 2021 annual report }} Arcadia-funded projects include the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme at Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities,{{cite web |url=http://www.eldp.net/ |title=Endangered Languages Documentation Programme |website=www.eldp.net |access-date=12 August 2022}}{{title missing|date=May 2022}} the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Libraryhttp://eap.bl.uk/index.a4d {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911065004/http://eap.bl.uk/index.a4d |date=2017-09-11 }} accessed 4 December 2015 and Fauna & Flora International's Halcyon Land and Sea fund. They are listed as one of the biggest benefactors to the Wikimedia Foundation[https://15.wikipedia.org/contributors.html Wikipedia 15 Contributors] Retrieved January 15, 2016. and donated $5 million to the Wikimedia endowment in 2017wmf:Resolution:Approval of Endowment funding (Fiscal Year 2016-2017) and matching $5 million gift from Peter Baldwin and Lisbet Rausing after Baldwin joined its advisory board.{{cite web|url=https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/09/09/peter-baldwin-endowment-board/|title=Peter Baldwin, professor and philanthropist, is appointed to the Wikimedia Endowment Advisory Board|date=2016-09-09}}

Rausing and Baldwin also founded Lund Trust. Since 2002 Lund Trust has given more than $77.7 million to charities in the UK and internationally.{{cite web|url=https://lundtrust.org.uk/|title=Lund Trust website |access-date=12 August 2022}}

In 2024, Rausing donated £500,000 to the Labour Party.https://donation.watch/en/unitedkingdom/2024/donors

• Rausing family

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• [http://www.arcadiafund.org.uk Arcadia Fund]
• [http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/l.rausing Biography at Imperial College]
• [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674005655 Harvard University Press]

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