Anne Dias

Anne Dias was born in Strasbourg, France, to a Franco-German mother and a Franco-Argentine father.⁠[1]

She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.⁠[2]

She started her career at Goldman Sachs in London, later became a portfolio manager at Soros Fund Management, and was a founding member of the investment team at Viking Global.⁠[3]

In 2001 she founded the investment firm Aragon Global Management in New York with seed capital from Julian RobertsonJulian RobertsonJulian Robertson (1932–2022) was an American hedge fund manager and philanthropist, the founder of the hedge fund Tiger Management, who trained and seeded a generation of hedge fund managers known as the “Tiger Cubs.” He also developed golf resort lodges in New Zealand and carried out large-scale philanthropy through several foundations.Open the full entry of Tiger Management.⁠[2]

In 2009 she returned capital to outside investors and then ran Aragon as a family office.⁠[1]

She was founder and managing partner of Aragon Global Management, LLC from 2001 to 2011 and became chief executive of Aragon Global Holdings in 2011.⁠[4]

She married Citadel founder Ken GriffinKen GriffinKen Griffin is an American hedge fund manager and investor, the founder and CEO of the hedge fund firm Citadel and the founder of the market maker Citadel Securities. In 2022 he announced the move of both firms’ global headquarters from Chicago to Miami; he is also a major donor to the U.S. Republican Party and has made large gifts to Harvard University, Carnegie Mellon University, and other institutions.Open the full entry in July 2003.⁠[5]

She served on Harvard Business School’s Board of Dean’s Advisors from 2008 to June 2020, was a director and audit committee chair of the Paris-listed investment firm Eurazeo SE from 2017 to April 2021, and taught a hedge fund investing course as an adjunct professor at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business from 2017 to 2019.⁠[6]

In 2010 she founded the Chicago Heights Early Childhood Center, an experimental preschool program.⁠[1]

She has said she helped launch a large-scale study with the University of Chicago and HarvardHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private research university in Massachusetts, established by the Massachusetts Bay Colony legislature in 1636 and named in 1639 for early benefactor John Harvard. Its principal campuses are in Cambridge and the Allston and Longwood neighborhoods of Boston. It includes Harvard College, graduate and professional schools, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Two governing boards share oversight. Alan M. Garber was president as of October 2026, and the endowment stood at $56.9 billion at the end of fiscal 2025.Open the full entry to learn which early childhood interventions work.⁠[7]

In June 2012 she was starting Reboot Illinois, a for-profit digital media company promoting political, educational and fiscal reform in Illinois; a spokeswoman said it would be nonpartisan and separate from Aragon. In a statement she called it a “forum” for people to “work toward a better Illinois.”⁠[8]

In July 2014 Ken Griffin filed for divorce in Cook County court in Illinois.⁠[5]

She became a director of Fox Corporation in March 2019 and served on its audit, compensation, and nominating and corporate governance committees.⁠[4]

Fox’s proxy statement filed on September 22, 2023, did not include her among its seven director nominees.⁠[9]

By March 2023 she had moved Aragon Global Management’s headquarters from New York to Miami.⁠[10]

She is a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and a board member of the French-American Foundation.⁠[3]

She sums up her philanthropy as “talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not,” focusing on early education, scholarships, the arts and transatlantic dialogue, and she has joined capital campaigns ranging from Harvard Business School to the rebuilding of Notre-Dame.⁠[7]