Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken (born 30 June 1954) is a Dutch billionaire businesswoman, and the owner of a 25% controlling interest in the world's second-largest brewer, Heineken N.V. She is the richest person in the Netherlands, with a net worth of $16.7 billion as of May 2021, according to the Forbes billionaires list.^[1]

Charlene Heineken was born on 30 June 1954, the daughter of Freddy Heineken, a Dutch industrialist, and Lucille Cummins, an American from a Kentucky family of bourbon whiskey distillers. She was educated at Rijnlands Lyceum Wassenaar, followed by a law degree from Leiden University.^[1]

She owns a 25% controlling stake in Dutch brewer Heineken, of which she is also an executive director.^[2]

The biannual Heineken Prize for cognitive science is named after her.^[3]

She is married to Michel de Carvalho, a financier and director of Citigroup, whom she met on a ski holiday in St. Moritz, Switzerland.^[4] He is known for portraying T.E. Lawrence's ill-fated servant Farraj in the 1962 film classic Lawrence of Arabia as a teen, and he is currently a member of the supervisory board of Heineken NV. They reside in London with their five children.^[1][5][6]

Upon the death of her father in 2002, she inherited about £3 billion, making her the wealthiest person with Dutch citizenship.^[7][8] In 2019, the Sunday Times Rich List ranking of the wealthiest people in the UK named her the wealthiest woman and the 7th overall, with an estimated fortune of £12 billion.^[9] De Carvalho's wealth in 2021 was estimated by Forbes at $16.7 billion making her 116th among the world's billionaires.^[10]

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