Sigrid Rausing

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Sigrid Maria Elisabet Rausing FRSL (born 29 January 1962) is a Swedish-British philanthropist, anthropologist and publisher. She is the founder of the Sigrid Rausing Trust, one of the United Kingdom's largest philanthropic foundations, and serves as a publisher of Granta magazine and Granta Books, which are owned by the Granta Trust, a charitable trust that she chairs. Sigrid Rausing is the daughter of Swedish businessman Hans Rausing and his wife Märit Rausing. She has one sister, Lisbet Rausing and one brother, Hans Kristian Rausing. Her grandfather Ruben Rausing was co-founder of the Swedish packaging company Tetra Pak. Rausing grew up in Lund, Sweden, and studied history at the University of York between 1983 and 1986. She earned an MSc in social anthropology from University College London in 1987, then continued with a PhD focusing on post-Soviet anthropology, and did her fieldwork on a collective farm in Estonia, in 1993–94. In 1997, she was awarded a PhD in social anthropology from the Department of Social Anthropology at University College London, followed by an honorary post-doctorate in the same department. Rausing's monograph based on her PhD, History, Memory, and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia: The End of a Collective Farm, was published by Oxford University Press in 2004. The book was preceded by a range of articles in scholarly journals, including Ethnologie Française.