Olympia Paus

Caroline Victoria Olympia Paus
Born (1976-11-11) November 11, 1976
Piraeus, Greece
Residence London, United Kingdom
Citizenship Norwegian
Occupation Businesswoman, Equestrian athlete
Spouse(s) Alexander Nix[1]
Children 3

Caroline Victoria Olympia Paus (born 11 November 1976), known as Olympia Paus (pronounced [ˈpæʉs]), is a Norwegian shipping heiress, businesswoman, and equestrian athlete, who lives in London. She is a member of the billionaire Wilhelmsen family and is one of the owners of Wilh. Wilhelmsen, one of the world's largest shipping companies with 21,000 employees in 75 countries. She also has substantial interests in other companies. She is an active Polo player, who competes in the Royal County of Berkshire Polo Club[2][3] and the Guards Polo Club, both of which are considered to be among the world's leading polo clubs.[4] She is married to Alexander Nix, former CEO of Cambridge Analytica.[1]

Biography

She was born in the port town of Piraeus in the Athens urban area in Greece, where her father Christopher Paus then worked in the shipping industry. Her parents left Norway for Greece in 1972, and later moved to London, where Olympia was raised and where she still lives. Her father is a ship-owner and investor; he was reported in 2007 to own shares in Scorpion Offshore worth 80 million euro,[5] and the family also owns shares in other companies and in real estate. Her mother Cecilie Paus (née Wilhelmsen) is a member of the billionaire Wilhelmsen family and became one of the main owners of Wilh. Wilhelmsen together with her siblings on the death of their father, shipping magnate Tom Wilhelmsen, in 1978. Olympia Paus is a great-granddaughter of Feudal Count (broadly equivalent to Duke in the UK) Peder Anker Wedel-Jarlsberg, who was Lord Chamberlain, King Haakon's close confidant and the highest-ranking nobleman in Norway, and her family has close ties to the Norwegian and Swedish royal families. Among her other ancestors are major industrialists Einar Westye Egeberg and Halvor Schou. Although she is a Norwegian citizen born to two Norwegian parents she has never lived in Norway; having lived in England almost her entire life, she has the right to apply for British citizenship, but has not done so.[1]

Personal life

Olympia Paus' engagement to Alexander Nix was announced in 2010.[6] Her sister is the designer Pontine Paus.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Alexander Nix' norske kone er rederarving" [Alexander Nix' Norwegian wife is a shipping heiress]. Dagbladet (in Norwegian).
  2. ↑ Prince of Wales & Trippetts challenge finals set (Polo Online)
  3. ↑ Images of Polo: Olympia Paus
  4. ↑ Committee Cup 2018
  5. ↑ Christopher Paus kjøpte flere riggaksjer, Nettavisen
  6. ↑ The engagement is announced between Alexander, son of the late Mr Paul Ashburner Nix and of Mrs Paul Ashburner Nix, of Kensington, London, and Olympia, younger daughter of Mr and Mrs Christopher Paus, of Holland Park, London (The Daily Telegraph)
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